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Apollo

#445 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly strength

Apollo has been given to 9,012 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #445 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 820 recorded.

Babies named Apollo, 2025

1 in 4,680

Apollo over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apollo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly strength

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Apollo means

Apollo may mean “strength”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Apollo (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Apollo is used in English and Polish.

Apollo comes through Latin Apollō and Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Apollo is pronounced /əˈpɑloʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,000 boys were recorded with the name Apollo between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 820 in 2022; its best national rank was #389 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #448 in 2020 to #445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #749 in 2015 to #445 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Apollo between 2020 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2021; its best national rank was #12,338 in 2021.

How common is Apollo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,680
708 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,410
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#445
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,247 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apollo 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,247 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apollo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apollos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apollo was born before 2019 — so the typical Apollo is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,000
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (4,480).

Is Apollo 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
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+304
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.3%
Peak was 2022 (820)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#389
2022

Spellings of Apollo

Apollo is not the most common spelling — Adolfo is, with 60.6% against Apollo's 33.7%.

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 Apollo is used

Across 2016–2025, Apollo was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 1,075 boys, against 1 in 2,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 25,000).

493 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 1,075
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 1,190
  3. 3Colorado1 in 1,299
  4. 4Washington1 in 1,333
  5. 5Arizona1 in 1,613
  6. 6Oregon1 in 1,613
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 1,754
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 1,754

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.

Geographically, Apollo is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 30% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Apollo around the world

Where Apollo 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #822
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2022–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,770
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #594
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Apollo

People whose public names include Apollo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Apollo in other languages

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

Apolo

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

Apollo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3
Best rank ever
#389
2022
Peak year
2022
820 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,000
Count in 2025
708

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,338
2021
Peak year
2021
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Apollo

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

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Names with a curve like Apollo

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

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Sibling names for Apollo

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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