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Cuauhtemoc

#6,883 in 2025Boys' name

Descending eagle

Cuauhtemoc has been given to 1,239 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #6,883 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Cuauhtemoc, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cuauhtemoc: meaning, origin, and history

Descending eagle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cuauhtemoc means

Cuauhtemoc means “descending eagle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,239 boys were recorded with the name Cuauhtemoc between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,170 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,564 in 2020 to #6,883 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,556 in 2015 to #6,883 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 Cuauhtemoc?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,883
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cuauhtemoc 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cuauhtemoc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cuauhtemocs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cuauhtemoc was born before 2002 — so the typical Cuauhtemoc is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,234
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (405).

Is Cuauhtemoc 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
−355
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,319
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,327
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 2007 (47)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,170
1980

Where Cuauhtemoc is used

Across 1910–2025, Cuauhtemoc was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 55,964 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Cuauhtemoc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cuauhtemoc by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,883
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,319
Best rank ever
#2,170
1980
Peak year
2007
47 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,239
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Cuauhtemoc

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

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Sibling names for Cuauhtemoc

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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