Argenis
Argenis was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,967 among boys’ names; 1,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Argenis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Argenis?
#8,967 among boys’ names, 2025
Argenis fell from #4,551 in 2015 to #8,967 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 4.7 per million.
81 babies in 1990, the peak
Argenis peaked in 1990, when 81 boys were given it, #1,211 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,967 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,358 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,548 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,800 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,577 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,065 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,692 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,366 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,106 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,565 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,551 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,091 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,823 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,645 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,031 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,262 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,727 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,927 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,287 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,893 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,475 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,829 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,280 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,451 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,898 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,296 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,844 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,790 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,677 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,333 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,249 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,472 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,159 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,125 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,376 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,211 | 39.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,623 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,510 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,534 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,780 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,948 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,934 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,792 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,498 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,631 | 20.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Argenis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Argenis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Argenis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Argenis, and how old are they?
An estimated 977 Americans named Argenis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,596 people named Argenis (87 women and girls, 1,509 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Argenis born?
The states with the most babies named Argenis are New York, California and Texas, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 236 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| California | 184 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Argenis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Argenis is most over-represented in New York: since 1981 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Argenis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Argenis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Argenis and names like it
- Compare Argenis and DontaviusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArgenis peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Argenis since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Argenis.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Argenis alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.