Pluto

#7,548 in 2025Boys' name

Wealth

Pluto has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #7,548 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Pluto, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pluto: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pluto means

Pluto means “wealth”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Pluto between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,548 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.

How common is Pluto?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,548
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pluto 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pluto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Plutos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pluto was born before 2024 — so the typical Pluto is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Pluto 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
+6,192
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
120.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,548
2025

Spellings of Pluto

Pluto is not the most common spelling — Paulo is, with 89.6% against Pluto's 0.41%.

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.

Pluto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,548
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,548
2025
Peak year
2025
11 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Pluto

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

Sibling names for Pluto

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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