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Ercole

Boys' name

Form of Hercules

Ercole has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1923, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ercole, 1940

1 in 461,000

Ercole over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ercole: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hercules

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ercole means

Ercole is a form of Hercules.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ercole is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛr.ko.le/ for Ercole.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ercole → Hercules. The family’s meaning is “year, season + glory”, recorded in English with the source elements yóh₁r̥ and κλέος.

Origin, language, and formation

Ercole comes through Latin Herculēs and Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hercules.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ercole is pronounced /ˈɛr.ko.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Ercole between 1914 and 1940. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1923; its best national rank was #2,740 in 1914.

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 Ercole?

Ercole had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1940
1 in 461,000
5 of 2,302,666 births
Among boys only
1 in 232,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1940
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
319,218 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ercole 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 1940 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 319,218 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ercole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ercoles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ercole was born before 1920 — so the typical Ercole is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Ercole 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (9)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,740
1914

Spellings of Ercole

Ercole is not the most common spelling — Cole is, with 92.6% against Ercole's 0.04%.

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.

Ercole around the world

Where Ercole 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
    1927–1965
    #1,774
    in 1965
  • South Australia
    1967–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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.

Ercole 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
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Best rank ever
#2,740
1914
Peak year
1923
9 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1940
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ercole

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

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Sibling names for Ercole

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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