Pancho

Boys' name

Diminutive of Francisco

Pancho has been given to 202 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1927, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Pancho, 2013

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pancho: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Francisco

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pancho means

Pancho is a diminutive of Francisco.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pancho is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpan.t͡ʃo/ for Pancho.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pancho → Francisco → Francis. The family’s meaning is “French(man)”, recorded in English with the source elements Franciscus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Francisco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Pancho is pronounced /ˈpant͡ʃo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 202 boys were recorded with the name Pancho between 1915 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,975 in 1958.

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.

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How common is Pancho?

Pancho had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013: 1 in 608,000; 6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only: 1 in 315,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 421,196 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pancho 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pancho. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Panchos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pancho was born before 1959 — so the typical Pancho is around 66 today.

Median birth year: 1959; About 66 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 128; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Pancho 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 1927 (9)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,975; 1958

Where Pancho is used

Across 1910–2025, Pancho was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 884,230 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Pancho has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pancho around the world

Where Pancho 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.

Canada
2003–2018
#2,536
in 2018

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Pancho 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: #2,975; 1958
Peak year: 1927; 9 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2013
All-time count: 202
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pancho

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

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Sibling names for Pancho

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

Darline Leatrice Ima Belva Edward George Charline Ardis

For a brother

Frances Jewel Napoleon Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud

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