Polo
#8,746 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Polo has been given to 599 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #8,746 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Polo, 2025
1 in 368,000
Polo over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Polo?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,746
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Polo sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Polo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Polos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Polo was born before 2000 — so the typical Polo is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 20.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 502
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (121).
Is Polo 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
- −1,123
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,758
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +606
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.9%
- Peak was 2001 (21)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.3% average annual change
Spellings of Polo
Polo is not the most common spelling — Cole is, with 41.8% against Polo's 0.16%.
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.
Where Polo is used
Across 1910–2025, Polo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 420,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Polo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Polo around the world
Where Polo 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.
- France2002–2024#4,558in 2024
- Canada2021–2021#2,989in 2021
- South Australia1963–1963#563in 1963
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Polo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Polo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Polo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.