Sargon

Boys' name

King + legitimate, true

Sargon has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1985, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Sargon, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sargon: meaning, origin, and history

King + legitimate, true

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sargon means

Sargon means “king + legitimate, true”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sargon is used in Akkadian (Anglicized), Biblical and Biblical Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɑɹ.ˌɡɑn/ and /ˈsɑː.ˌɡɒn/ for Sargon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Sargon between 1976 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1985; its best national rank was #5,479 in 1976.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Sargon?

Sargon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sargon 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sargon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sargons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sargon was born before 1992 — so the typical Sargon is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 27.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 74; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Sargon 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 1985 (7)
Years since peak: 40; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,479; 1976

Spellings of Sargon

Sargon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 60.1% against Sargon's <0.01%.

Aaron60.1%614,462
Carson13.0%132,774
Marion7.1%72,495
Marlon3.0%30,956
Karson2.1%21,394
Aron2.1%21,235
Samson1.3%12,879
Jaron1.1%11,228

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 Sargon is used

Across 1910–2025, Sargon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,731,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Illinois1 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. Sargon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sargon 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: #5,479; 1976
Peak year: 1985; 7 that year
First recorded: 1976
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 74
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sargon

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

Sarvin Sariel Sarmad Sargis Sartaj Sarang Sardar Saron Sarath Sarp Sarth Sarvesh Sarfaraz Sarthak Sarim Aegon Sargent Sarvam Aragon Daegon Sarkis Sardor Saransh Morgon

Sibling names for Sargon

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

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For a brother

Whitney Marques Derik Derrell Brenton Antoine Jerrod Darell

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