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Americo

#8,951 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly hard work, struggle + king, through Américo

Americo has been given to 2,911 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #8,951 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Americo, 2025

1 in 414,000

Americo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Americo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hard work, struggle + king, through Américo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Americo means

Americo belongs to the name family reached through Americo → Américo → Amerī̆cus → Amerigo → *Amalarīks. Its meaning is “hard work, struggle + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Americo is used in English.

Americo comes through Spanish Américo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Américo, Amerī̆cus, Amerigo and *Amalarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,911 boys were recorded with the name Americo between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1922; its best national rank was #581 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,618 in 2020 to #8,951 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,780 in 2015 to #8,951 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Americo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,951
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Americo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Americo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Americos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Americo was born before 1929 — so the typical Americo is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,088
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (822).

Is Americo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,004
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+667
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1922 (106)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#581
1917

Spellings of Americo

Americo is the most-used spelling, taking 49.7% of the 5,853 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Americo is used

Across 1910–2025, Americo was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 57,450 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 4,762
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in 33,333
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Americo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Americo around the world

Where Americo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1924–1986
    #2,245
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1965–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Americo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Americo. Linked forms have their own page here.

ImreEmerikEmerykAmerigoEmerichEmerickEmmerichEmrichImrichÉmericEmericoEmerikoEmmerik

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Americo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,951
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 667
Best rank ever
#581
1917
Peak year
1922
106 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,911
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Americo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AmeenDomenicoAmelioAmeerAmereEnricoAmesAmeirAmerAmeliaAmenFedericoAmerigoAmedeoAmelAmenadielDominicoAmeyaAmerisJericoFransicoMonicoRicoDelrico

Names with a curve like Americo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Americo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GuidoSilvioAlbinCasimirEldredDurwardFlorianAloysiusUrbanHilbertLudwigEvert

Sibling names for Americo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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