Homero
Homero was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,692 among boys’ names; 3,763 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,150 Americans named Homero and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Homero by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Homero mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Homero is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Homer” Its etymology gives the sense “hostage” (literally).
From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, literally “hostage”).
/oˈmeɾo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Homero?
#5,692 among boys’ names, 2025
Homero fell from #3,462 in 2015 to #5,692 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 9.4 per million.
82 babies in 1994, the peak
Homero peaked in 1994, when 82 boys were given it, #1,286 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,692 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,477 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,147 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,906 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,682 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,678 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,384 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,404 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,812 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,036 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,462 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,111 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,910 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,018 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,214 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,196 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,968 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,763 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,423 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,156 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,116 | 29.0 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,030 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,060 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 75 | #1,610 | 38.6 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,660 | 36.0 |
| 2000 | 61 | #1,784 | 31.1 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,040 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,909 | 26.7 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,736 | 29.7 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,447 | 37.5 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,629 | 29.4 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,286 | 42.4 |
| 1993 | 60 | #1,522 | 30.6 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,581 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 57 | #1,526 | 28.2 |
| 1990 | 57 | #1,501 | 27.8 |
| 1989 | 56 | #1,480 | 28.0 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,597 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 48 | #1,491 | 25.7 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,370 | 28.2 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,396 | 26.5 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,332 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,476 | 23.4 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,246 | 30.9 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,251 | 30.1 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,192 | 33.1 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,279 | 30.2 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,310 | 29.2 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,417 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,072 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,106 | 37.1 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,102 | 35.6 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,061 | 37.9 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,168 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,281 | 24.3 |
| 1970 | 41 | #1,305 | 22.1 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,257 | 22.4 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,156 | 24.7 |
| 1967 | 34 | #1,297 | 19.5 |
| 1966 | 20 | #1,735 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,248 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,101 | 24.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,556 | 12.8 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,192 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,162 | 21.7 |
| 1960 | 30 | #1,468 | 14.1 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,270 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,408 | 14.6 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,466 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,694 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,282 | 17.0 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,570 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,532 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,306 | 17.0 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,315 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,326 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,361 | 16.3 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,580 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,406 | 15.3 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,224 | 20.3 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,726 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,601 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,474 | 16.1 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,832 | 11.6 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,790 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,844 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,752 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,583 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,951 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,566 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,622 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,070 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,795 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,535 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,386 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,364 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,138 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,743 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,610 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,247 | 12.6 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,914 | 8.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,680 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,637 | 4.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,248 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Homero a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Homero has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Homero: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Homero, and how old are they?
3,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 3,763 Americans ever recorded as Homero. The median Homero alive today is 36 years old; half are between 23 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 5,589 people named Homero (7 women and girls, 5,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,161 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 59 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 405 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 847 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 846 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 331 |
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 Homero born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,807 | 8.7× |
Where Homero is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Homero is most over-represented in Texas: since 1917 it was given 8.7 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 Homero 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 Homero
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 Homero and names like it
- Compare Homero and RaulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sHomero peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Homero since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Homero: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Homero.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Homero alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.