Po

Boys' name

Diminutive of Per-Ola

Po has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1982, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Po, 1982

1 in 702,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Po: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Per-Ola

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Po means

Po is a diminutive of Per-Ola.

Origin, language, and formation

Po is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Per-Ola.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Po between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #7,098 in 1982.

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 Po?

Po had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982: 1 in 702,000; 5 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only: 1 in 363,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 486,263 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Po 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 1982 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 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Po. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Po was born before 1982 — so the typical Po is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Po 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 1982 (5)
Years since peak: 43; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #7,098; 1982

Po around the world

Where Po 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
1980–1982
#2,270
in 1982

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

Po 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: #7,098; 1982
Peak year: 1982; 5 that year
First recorded: 1982
Last recorded: 1982
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Po

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

Pomp Pol Pooya Poppy Poe Pouya Port Pong Poncho Poojan Pono Pope Pompey Porsha Portia Poet Poul Pomposo Polly Pollux Powers Polk Power Potter

Sibling names for Po

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

Eboni Lyndsay Shamika Afton Tanesha Christopher Kandi Matthew

For a brother

Jamaal Donnell Jerrod Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Marques

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