Meaning not yet researched.
Cosmo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #933 in 1913.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #933 in 1913; #1,934 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cosmo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,934 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1913, at #933.
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Cosmo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 boys in 2025. Peak: #933 in 1913 · most boys in one year: 99 (2024).
In 2025, 80 US boys were named Cosmo, making it the 1,934th most common boys’ name of the year, down 246 places from #1,688 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 99 boys named Cosmo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #933, reached in 1913. The most boys given the name in a single year was 99, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,444 in 2015 and #1,896 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cosmo in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 6 babies. In all, 2,955 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 516 babies named Cosmo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 663 US boys were named Cosmo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,351 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cosmo ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,126 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kosmo, Kozmo and Cozmo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kosmo (29), Kozmo (10), Cozmo (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cosmo 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,126 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,226 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,311 | #2,632 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,652 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 80 | #1,934 |
| 2024 | — | — | 99 | #1,688 |
| 2023 | — | — | 94 | #1,749 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,984 | 99 | #1,708 |
| 2021 | — | — | 78 | #1,933 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,271 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,631 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,903 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,652 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,444 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,054 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,651 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,393 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,013 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,138 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,424 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,843 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,234 |
| 2005 | — | — | 41 | #2,670 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,548 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,863 |
| 2002 | — | — | 29 | #3,122 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,736 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,658 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,010 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,729 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,478 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,425 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,893 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,701 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,055 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,141 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,821 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,453 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,066 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,286 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,256 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,687 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,843 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,747 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,446 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,729 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,455 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,661 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,798 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,229 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,247 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,076 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,487 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,576 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,626 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,262 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,586 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #2,009 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,723 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,767 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,501 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,240 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,030 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,328 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,057 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,297 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,340 |
| 1960 | — | — | 17 | #1,981 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,217 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,039 |
| 1957 | — | — | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1956 | — | — | 28 | #1,488 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,067 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,905 |
| 1953 | — | — | 24 | #1,557 |
| 1952 | — | — | 20 | #1,714 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,605 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,896 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,770 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,663 |
| 1947 | — | — | 22 | #1,611 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,968 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,605 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,010 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,408 |
| 1942 | — | — | 31 | #1,250 |
| 1941 | — | — | 29 | #1,237 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,210 |
| 1939 | — | — | 26 | #1,301 |
| 1938 | — | — | 25 | #1,343 |
| 1937 | — | — | 26 | #1,313 |
| 1936 | — | — | 25 | #1,331 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,333 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,517 |
| 1933 | — | — | 32 | #1,165 |
| 1932 | — | — | 35 | #1,143 |
| 1931 | — | — | 31 | #1,240 |
| 1930 | — | — | 39 | #1,119 |
| 1929 | — | — | 35 | #1,180 |
| 1928 | — | — | 43 | #1,059 |
| 1927 | — | — | 45 | #1,044 |
| 1926 | — | — | 50 | #966 |
| 1925 | — | — | 50 | #959 |
| 1924 | — | — | 48 | #1,020 |
| 1923 | — | — | 47 | #1,030 |
| 1922 | — | — | 40 | #1,122 |
| 1921 | — | — | 54 | #954 |
| 1920 | — | — | 40 | #1,123 |
| 1919 | — | — | 42 | #1,050 |
| 1918 | — | — | 43 | #1,032 |
| 1917 | — | — | 35 | #1,136 |
| 1916 | — | — | 28 | #1,270 |
| 1915 | — | — | 31 | #1,164 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,232 |
| 1913 | — | — | 28 | #933 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,547 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,417 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,461 |
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).