Paco

Boys' name

Possibly father of the community, through Paco

Paco has been given to 324 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 2007, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Paco, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Paco: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly father of the community, through Paco

Spanish

What Paco means

Paco belongs to the name family reached through Paco → Paco. Its meaning is “father of the community”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Spanish Paco, diminutive of Spanish Francisco.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Paco (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Paco is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Paco comes through Spanish Paco and Spanish Francisco.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Francisco, Pancho and Paco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Paco is pronounced /ˈpako/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 324 boys were recorded with the name Paco between 1960 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,295 in 1968.

How common is Paco?

Paco 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 418,000; 8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 215,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,633 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Paco 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Paco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pacos were born

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

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 53.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 324; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Paco 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 2007 (18)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,295; 1968

Spellings of Paco

Paco is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 39.3% against Paco's <0.01%.

Paul39.3%1,398,293
Jacob27.8%988,227
Jack21.3%756,943
Jace2.6%91,544
Marco2.2%76,578
Pablo1.4%50,370
Mack1.2%42,720
Pat0.75%26,732

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 Paco is used

Across 1910–2025, Paco was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,162,180 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Paco has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Paco around the world

Where Paco 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.

England & Wales
2020–2025
#5,137
in 2025
France
1927–2025
#482
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Paco 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: #3,295; 1968
Peak year: 2007; 18 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 324
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Paco

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

Pace Pacey Pacen Waco Pacer Draco Jaco Monaco Packer Ciriaco Packard Pacifico Ronreaco Spartaco

Sibling names for Paco

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

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

Explore around Paco

Top names of 2007, Paco's peak year The 2000s in full Other names that peaked in 1968 Boys' names starting with P Francis Variations & Nicknames