Polo — #7796 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Polo

The Social Security Administration has registered 589 babies named Polo between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Polo currently holds the #7796 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Polo performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Polo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Polo in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Polo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 589 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.