Meaning not yet researched.
Apollo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 708 in 2025. Its best rank was #389 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #389 in 2022; #445 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Apollo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#445 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #389.
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Apollo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 708 boys in 2025. Peak: #389 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 820 (2022).
In 2025, 708 US boys were named Apollo, making it the 445th most common boys’ name of the year, down 32 places from #413 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 781 boys named Apollo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #389, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 820. For comparison, it was #749 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Apollo in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 6 babies. In all, 9,012 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,492 babies named Apollo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,621 US boys were named Apollo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 820. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,413 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Apollo ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #201 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Apolo are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian, Latin and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Apolo (252).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Apollo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 15 | #201 | #451 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #266 | — |
| Massachusetts | 19 | #298 | #406 |
| Colorado | 21 | #307 | #379 |
| Washington | 24 | #310 | #433 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #318 | #606 |
| Utah | 14 | #328 | #564 |
| Iowa | 10 | #348 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #361 | — |
| New Jersey | 22 | #364 | #781 |
| California | 94 | #368 | #656 |
| Florida | 53 | #369 | #630 |
| Missouri | 17 | #370 | #524 |
| Arizona | 19 | #395 | #731 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #398 | #936 |
| Michigan | 21 | #409 | #718 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #426 | — |
| New York | 38 | #449 | #1,009 |
| Texas | 72 | #462 | #779 |
| Georgia | 23 | #464 | — |
| Kansas | 7 | #469 | #520 |
| Maryland | 10 | #475 | #711 |
| Oregon | 7 | #477 | #457 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #490 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #515 | #541 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #522 | — |
| Indiana | 12 | #546 | #718 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #554 | — |
| North Carolina | 17 | #570 | #896 |
| Ohio | 17 | #577 | #786 |
| Virginia | 12 | #590 | #998 |
| Alabama | 7 | #625 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #632 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #682 | #746 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 708 | #445 |
| 2024 | — | — | 781 | #413 |
| 2023 | — | — | 718 | #434 |
| 2022 | — | — | 820 | #389 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,343 | 787 | #397 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,328 | 666 | #448 |
| 2019 | — | — | 590 | #489 |
| 2018 | — | — | 552 | #512 |
| 2017 | — | — | 529 | #535 |
| 2016 | — | — | 470 | #586 |
| 2015 | — | — | 323 | #749 |
| 2014 | — | — | 288 | #796 |
| 2013 | — | — | 205 | #975 |
| 2012 | — | — | 203 | #983 |
| 2011 | — | — | 143 | #1,219 |
| 2010 | — | — | 142 | #1,241 |
| 2009 | — | — | 80 | #1,841 |
| 2008 | — | — | 80 | #1,825 |
| 2007 | — | — | 93 | #1,650 |
| 2006 | — | — | 72 | #1,877 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,569 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,746 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,047 |
| 2002 | — | — | 48 | #2,197 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,692 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,801 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,847 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,601 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,123 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,011 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,807 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,897 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #6,859 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,123 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,832 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,869 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,628 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,690 |
| 1987 | — | — | 28 | #2,118 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,590 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,918 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,296 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,142 |
| 1982 | — | — | 39 | #1,568 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,422 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,218 |
| 1979 | — | — | 46 | #1,372 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,917 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,614 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,967 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,966 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,862 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,861 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,638 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,571 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,220 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,553 |
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).