Argentina

Girls' name

Argentina country name

Argentina has been given to 442 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Argentina, 2017

1 in 715,000

Argentina over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Argentina: meaning, origin, and history

Argentina country name

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Argentina means

Argentina is documented as a given name taken from the country name. That is its immediate naming reference.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Argentina is used in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /aɾ.xen.ˈti.na/, /ɐɾ.ʒẽ.ˈti.nɐ/, /ah.ʒẽ.ˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/ and /ar.d͡ʒen.ˈti.na/ for Argentina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 442 girls were recorded with the name Argentina between 1913 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1925; its best national rank was #2,287 in 1925.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Argentina?

Argentina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Argentina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Argentina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Argentinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Argentina was born before 1963 — so the typical Argentina is around 62 today.

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 275; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Argentina 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1925 (16)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,287; 1925

Where Argentina is used

Across 1910–2025, Argentina was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 272,909 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Argentina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Argentina around the world

Where Argentina 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
1911–1929
#1,244
in 1929
South Australia
1958–1963
#644
in 1963

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.

Argentina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,287; 1925
Peak year: 1925; 16 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 442
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Argentina

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

Sibling names for Argentina

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

For a sister

Concepcion Easter Gene Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Jewel Eldridge Lenard Merritt Lacy

Explore around Argentina

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