Placido
Placido was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,111 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Placido by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Placido?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,586, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1923, the peak
Placido peaked in 1923, when 23 boys were given it, #1,630 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,586 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,612 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,537 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,593 | 4.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,820 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,678 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,626 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,295 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,113 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,051 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 | #6,606 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,641 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,358 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,997 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,698 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,694 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,400 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,724 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,271 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,213 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,669 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,152 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,683 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,698 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,743 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,735 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,210 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,337 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,134 | 5.5 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,163 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,791 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,785 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,754 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,913 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,540 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,211 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,046 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,084 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,387 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,831 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,275 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,476 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,514 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,042 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,958 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,925 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,183 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,524 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,573 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,662 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,578 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,495 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,193 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,605 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,422 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,407 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,369 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,042 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,955 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,724 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,092 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,867 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,470 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,851 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,216 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,866 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,971 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,116 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,177 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,967 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,850 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,097 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,171 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,580 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,577 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,524 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,889 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,596 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,825 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,049 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,776 | 17.7 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,948 | 15.3 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,276 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,863 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,919 | 16.1 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,827 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,630 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,746 | 19.3 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,812 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,202 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,066 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,137 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,389 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,751 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,945 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,431 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,445 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,824 | 11.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,498 | 34.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Placido a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Placido has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Placido: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Placido, and how old are they?
An estimated 580 Americans named Placido and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 29 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,900 people named Placido (7 women and girls, 1,893 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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 Placido born?
The states with the most babies named Placido are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 195 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Mexico | 27 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Placido is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Placido is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Placido 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 Placido
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 Placido and names like it
- Compare Placido and YsidroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPlacido peaked in 1923.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Placido since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Placido.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Placido alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with PMost given first.