Meaning not yet researched.
Americo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #581 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #581 in 1917; #8,955 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Americo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,955 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #581.
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Americo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #581 in 1917 · most boys in one year: 106 (1922).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Americo, making it the 8,955th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,005 places from #9,960 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 7 boys named Americo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #581, reached in 1917. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 1922. For comparison, it was #8,785 in 2015 and #2,114 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Americo in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 2,911 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 822 babies named Americo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 73 US boys were named Americo; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Emerick, Emmerich and Imre are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Emerick (748), Emmerich (270), Imre (188), Emerik (114), Emeryk (59), Emerich (29).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Americo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #8,955 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #9,960 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #8,966 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #9,887 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,351 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #9,624 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #8,863 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #10,856 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,186 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #8,785 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,147 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #10,857 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,528 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,751 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,249 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,051 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,623 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,479 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,660 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,546 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,820 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,676 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #6,952 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,586 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,186 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,888 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,309 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,404 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,802 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,770 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,237 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,609 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,646 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,394 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,820 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #3,920 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,247 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,445 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,222 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,437 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,634 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,244 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,571 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,060 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,575 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,801 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,459 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,875 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,452 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #1,987 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,130 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,083 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,282 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,510 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,046 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,856 |
| 1966 | — | — | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1965 | — | — | 25 | #1,559 |
| 1964 | — | — | 20 | #1,795 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,202 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,852 |
| 1961 | — | — | 25 | #1,603 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,553 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,760 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,954 |
| 1957 | — | — | 28 | #1,487 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,823 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,905 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,046 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,767 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,522 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,500 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,114 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,694 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,359 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,031 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,854 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,314 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,282 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,147 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,085 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,083 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,617 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,086 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,691 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,640 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,657 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,659 |
| 1933 | — | — | 21 | #1,500 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,387 |
| 1931 | — | — | 42 | #1,032 |
| 1930 | — | — | 34 | #1,217 |
| 1929 | — | — | 74 | #729 |
| 1928 | — | — | 63 | #826 |
| 1927 | — | — | 64 | #840 |
| 1926 | — | — | 60 | #855 |
| 1925 | — | — | 79 | #730 |
| 1924 | — | — | 98 | #647 |
| 1923 | — | — | 91 | #671 |
| 1922 | — | — | 106 | #624 |
| 1921 | — | — | 104 | #623 |
| 1920 | — | — | 83 | #714 |
| 1919 | — | — | 81 | #692 |
| 1918 | — | — | 89 | #652 |
| 1917 | — | — | 104 | #581 |
| 1916 | — | — | 78 | #672 |
| 1915 | — | — | 87 | #616 |
| 1914 | — | — | 70 | #603 |
| 1913 | — | — | 47 | #649 |
| 1912 | — | — | 37 | #700 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #645 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #822 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,023 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #686 |
| 1907 | — | — | 9 | #932 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,257 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,240 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,212 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).