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Homero

#5,692 in 2025Boys' name

Hostage

Homero has been given to 3,763 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #5,692 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Homero, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Homero: meaning, origin, and history

Hostage

Ancient Greek and Latin

What Homero means

Homero means “hostage”, associated with hómēros.

Origin, language, and formation

Homero is used in Esperanto, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Latin.

Homero comes through Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Homer and Homērus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Homero is pronounced /hoˈmero/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,763 boys were recorded with the name Homero between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,061 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,678 in 2020 to #5,692 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,462 in 2015 to #5,692 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Homero?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,692
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Homero 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Homero. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Homeros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Homero was born before 1985 — so the typical Homero is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,321
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (593).

Is Homero 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
−1,215
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,014
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,230
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.5%
Peak was 1994 (82)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,061
1973

Spellings of Homero

Homero is not the most common spelling — Homer is, with 54.4% against Homero's 3.4%.

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.

Where Homero is used

Across 1910–2025, Homero was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 16,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 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. Homero has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Homero

People whose public names include Homero, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Homero in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Homero. Linked forms have their own page here.

HomerOmero

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Homero by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,692
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,014
Best rank ever
#1,061
1973
Peak year
1994
82 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,763
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Homero

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

RomeroCiceroSeveroCorderoDineroPieroHomerHomarSoteroLuceroHeroCalogeroAeroNeroBaldomeroEeroHommerAnteroOmeroSperoLiberoHomasZeroHombre

Names with a curve like Homero

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Homero, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArnoldoVidalNorbertoLavellCorwinHoracioLamonteErasmoRoqueFransiscoRoelDelvin

Sibling names for Homero

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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