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Apolo

#4,144 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Apollo

Apolo has been given to 252 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,144 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Apolo, 2025

1 in 133,000

Apolo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apolo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Apollo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Apolo means

Apolo is a form of Apollo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Apolo → Apollo. The family’s proposed meaning is “strength”, recorded in the naming reference for Apollo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Apollo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 252 boys were recorded with the name Apolo between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,144 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,541 in 2020 to #4,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,525 in 2015 to #4,144 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.

How common is Apolo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,144
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apolo 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apolo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apolos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apolo was born before 2017 — so the typical Apolo is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
252
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Choose a decade

2020s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Apolo 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
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,397
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,381
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (25)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,144
2025

Spellings of Apolo

Apolo is not the most common spelling — Arlo is, with 42.6% against Apolo's 0.44%.

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 Apolo is used

Across 1910–2025, Apolo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,597,955 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Apolo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Apolo around the world

Where Apolo 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
    2025–2025
    #6,439
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Apolo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,397
Best rank ever
#4,144
2025
Peak year
2025
25 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
252
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Apolo

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

ApollosPoloSoloRomoloManoloNicoloApolinarPaoloBartoloNiccoloApostolosApolloXoloApolonioGianpaoloLoloMayoloNikoloApostolisMarcopolo

Sibling names for Apolo

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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