Pellegrino

Boys' name

Pilgrim

Pellegrino has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1922, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Pellegrino, 1972

1 in 629,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pellegrino: meaning, origin, and history

Pilgrim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pellegrino means

Pellegrino means “pilgrim”, associated with pellegrino.

Origin, language, and formation

Pellegrino is used in Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 boys were recorded with the name Pellegrino between 1912 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,818 in 1912.

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 Pellegrino?

Pellegrino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972: 1 in 629,000; 5 of 3,142,796 births
Among boys only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1972: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 435,685 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Pellegrino 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 1972 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 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pellegrino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pellegrinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pellegrino was born before 1922 — so the typical Pellegrino is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.2%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Pellegrino 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 1922 (9)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,818; 1912

Where Pellegrino is used

Across 1910–2025, Pellegrino was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Pellegrino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pellegrino around the world

Where Pellegrino 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.

South Australia
1954–2013
#754
in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pellegrino 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: #2,818; 1912
Peak year: 1922; 9 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1972
All-time count: 97
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pellegrino

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

Sibling names for Pellegrino

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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