Argo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Argo has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Argo, 2024

1 in 371,000

Argo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Argo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Argo means

Argo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Argo is used in Estonian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Argo between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,562 in 1912.

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 Argo?

Argo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 371,000; 9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 191,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 257,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Argo 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Argo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Argos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Argo was born before 1919 — so the typical Argo is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 46.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 19; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Argo 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 2024 (9)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,562; 1912

Spellings of Argo

Argo is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 32.2% against Argo's <0.01%.

Mario32.2%151,310
Marco16.3%76,578
Hugo8.0%37,482
Arlo5.2%24,245
Aron4.5%21,235
Ari4.4%20,592
Aldo3.8%17,728
Carlo3.4%15,920

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.

Argo around the world

Where Argo 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.

South Australia
1970–1970
#540
in 1970

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Argo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,562; 1912
Peak year: 2024; 9 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 41
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Argo

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

Argle Argus Argil Argel Argie Argyl Margo Argelis Argene Argyle Argusta Argelio Argeniz Argenys Argenis Arguster Argonne

Sibling names for Argo

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

Noah Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie Malani

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rome Shlomo Tadeo

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