Cuauhtemoc
Cuauhtemoc was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,883 among boys’ names; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Cuauhtemoc and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cuauhtemoc by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cuauhtemoc?
#6,883 among boys’ names, 2025
Cuauhtemoc fell from #5,556 in 2015 to #6,883 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.0 per million.
47 babies in 2007, the peak
Cuauhtemoc peaked in 2007, when 47 boys were given it, #2,615 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,883 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,528 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,244 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,556 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,960 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,564 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,829 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,773 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,852 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,556 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,775 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,209 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,154 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,619 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,384 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,059 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,062 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,615 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,704 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,623 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,703 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,479 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,340 | 22.7 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,691 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,532 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,734 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,796 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,502 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,761 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,694 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,860 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,263 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,947 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,692 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,483 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,063 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,576 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,012 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,186 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,841 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,302 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,586 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,672 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,455 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 24 | #2,170 | 13.5 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,611 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,653 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,430 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,849 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,461 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,480 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,242 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,847 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,412 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,109 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,663 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,632 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,092 | 4.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,185 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,147 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,068 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,795 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cuauhtemoc a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cuauhtemoc has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cuauhtemoc: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cuauhtemoc, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Cuauhtemoc. The median Cuauhtemoc alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,940 people named Cuauhtemoc (2 women and girls, 1,938 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,107 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 148 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 237 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 572 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 211 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Cuauhtemoc born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,128 | 1.3× |
Where Cuauhtemoc is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cuauhtemoc is most over-represented in California: since 1949 it was given 3.4 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 Cuauhtemoc with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,385 babies since 1880, Cuauhtemoc is the most given (89% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuauhtemoc | 1,239 | 12 | 2007 |
| Cuahutemoc | 146 | under 5 | 2001 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cuauhtemoc
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 Cuauhtemoc and names like it
- Compare Cuauhtemoc and CuahutemocBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCuauhtemoc peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cuauhtemoc since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Cuauhtemoc.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Cuauhtemoc alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.