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Placido

Boys' name

Quiet, calm

Placido has been given to 1,111 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1923, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Placido, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Placido: meaning, origin, and history

Quiet, calm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Placido means

Placido means “quiet, calm”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Placido is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈplaː.t͡ʃi.do/ for Placido.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,111 boys were recorded with the name Placido between 1907 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,431 in 1914.

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.

How common is Placido?

Placido had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Placido 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Placido. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Placidos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Placido was born before 1951 — so the typical Placido is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
579
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Placido 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (23)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,431
1914

Where Placido is used

Across 1910–2025, Placido was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 181,002 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New 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. Placido has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Placido around the world

Where Placido 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
    1925–1975
    #2,164
    in 1975

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

Placido 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
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Best rank ever
#1,431
1914
Peak year
1923
23 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,111
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Placido

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

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Sibling names for Placido

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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