Pope
#7,549 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pope has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #7,549 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Pope, 2025
1 in 301,000
Pope 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pope?
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
- #7,549
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pope 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pope. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Popes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pope was born before 1926 — so the typical Pope is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Pope 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
- +6,193
- 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
- 91.7%
- Peak was 1918 (12)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 61.5% average annual change
Spellings of Pope
Pope is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 44.1% against Pope's <0.01%.
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 Pope is used
Across 1910–2025, Pope was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Pope has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pope by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pope
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pope
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.