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Primo

#8,079 in 2025Boys' name

Firstborn

Primo has been given to 874 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #8,079 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Primo, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Primo: meaning, origin, and history

Firstborn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Primo means

Primo means “firstborn”, associated with primo.

Origin, language, and formation

Primo is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Primo is pronounced /ˈpri.mo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 874 boys were recorded with the name Primo between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,332 in 1912.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,349 in 2015 to #8,079 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Primo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,079
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Primo 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Primo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Primos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Primo was born before 1939 — so the typical Primo is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Primo 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
+5,670
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,270
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 1921 (31)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,332
1912

Spellings of Primo

Primo is not the most common spelling — Rico is, with 38.2% against Primo's 3.4%.

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 Primo is used

Across 1910–2025, Primo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 562,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Primo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Primo around the world

Where Primo 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.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1904–2025
    #6,576
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–1964
    #557
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Primo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,079
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,332
1912
Peak year
1921
31 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
874
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Primo

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

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Sibling names for Primo

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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