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Falco

Boys' name

Hawk

Falco has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 2014, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Falco, 2022

1 in 484,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Falco: meaning, origin, and history

Hawk

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Falco means

Falco means “hawk”, associated with falco.

Origin, language, and formation

Falco is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Falco is pronounced /ˈfal.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Falco between 1924 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,578 in 1924.

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 Falco?

Falco had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 249,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Falco 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Falco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Falcos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Falco was born before 2018 — so the typical Falco is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
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2010s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Falco 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (7)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,578
1924

Spellings of Falco

Falco is not the most common spelling — Marco is, with 61.7% against Falco's 0.02%.

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.

Falco around the world

Where Falco 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
    1998–2014
    #6,226
    in 2014

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

Falco 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
#4,578
1924
Peak year
2014
7 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Falco

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

FallouFalonFalahFalandoElcoFalconFallonWilcoAlco

Sibling names for Falco

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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