Nunzio
Nunzio was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,620 among boys’ names; 1,838 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nunzio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nunzio mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Nunzio is “a male given name from the word meaning messenger of God”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nunzio?
#11,620 among boys’ names, 2025
Nunzio rose from #13,496 in 2015 to #11,620 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
67 babies in 1923, the peak
Nunzio peaked in 1923, when 67 boys were given it, #829 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,620 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,614 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,495 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,899 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,479 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,307 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,497 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,751 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,635 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,986 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,496 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,506 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,844 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,755 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,424 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,796 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,037 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,710 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,647 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,077 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,699 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,334 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,933 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,088 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,351 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,947 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,726 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,249 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,791 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,498 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,290 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,388 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,174 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,170 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,025 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,847 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,464 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,214 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,850 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,749 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,380 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,808 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,858 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,209 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,248 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,272 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,223 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,304 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,462 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,281 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,377 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,628 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,835 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,257 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,501 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,465 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,381 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,596 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,401 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,712 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,160 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,130 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,219 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,400 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,087 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,566 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,509 | 13.7 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,363 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,211 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,582 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,452 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,023 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,671 | 14.7 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,277 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,773 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,330 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,514 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,859 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,269 | 27.8 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,653 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,627 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,349 | 25.9 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,094 | 37.5 |
| 1930 | 51 | #954 | 46.5 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,133 | 35.3 |
| 1928 | 53 | #936 | 47.9 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,020 | 42.6 |
| 1926 | 50 | #976 | 45.0 |
| 1925 | 59 | #879 | 52.9 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,015 | 43.3 |
| 1923 | 67 | #829 | 61.1 |
| 1922 | 55 | #944 | 50.5 |
| 1921 | 65 | #863 | 59.0 |
| 1920 | 63 | #861 | 59.2 |
| 1919 | 57 | #886 | 58.2 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,146 | 36.5 |
| 1917 | 60 | #831 | 64.8 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,022 | 44.9 |
| 1915 | 48 | #899 | 56.6 |
| 1914 | 41 | #848 | 62.6 |
| 1913 | 39 | #754 | 76.1 |
| 1912 | 24 | #931 | 55.8 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,259 | 39.8 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,234 | 42.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nunzio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nunzio 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 Nunzio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nunzio, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Nunzio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 22 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 943 people named Nunzio (0 women and girls, 943 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 611 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Nunzio born?
The states with the most babies named Nunzio are New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 689 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| New Jersey | 101 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nunzio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nunzio is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 4.2 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 Nunzio 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 Nunzio
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 Nunzio and names like it
- Compare Nunzio and GasperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNunzio peaked in 1923.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nunzio since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Nunzio.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nunzio alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.