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Spartaco

Boys' name

Renowned by the spear, through Spartacus

Spartaco has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1919, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Spartaco, 1919

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Spartaco: meaning, origin, and history

Renowned by the spear, through Spartacus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Spartaco means

Spartaco belongs to the name family reached through Spartaco → Spartacus. Its meaning is “renowned by the spear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Spartaco is used in Italian.

Spartaco comes through Latin Spartacus and Ancient Greek Σπάρτακος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Spartacus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Spartaco between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,695 in 1919.

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 Spartaco?

Spartaco had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1919, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1919
1 in 301,000
7 of 2,110,182 births
Among boys only
1 in 140,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1919
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
208,954 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Spartaco 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 1919 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 208,954 children born in 1919 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Spartaco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Spartacos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Spartaco was born before 1919 — so the typical Spartaco is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Spartaco 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (7)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,695
1919

Spartaco around the world

Where Spartaco 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
    1923–1928
    #688
    in 1928
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Spartaco 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
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Best rank ever
#3,695
1919
Peak year
1919
7 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Spartaco

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

SpauldingSpartanSpandanSpankyRonreacoSparksSparkySpartacusSparrowSpadeMonacoSparshCiriacoJacoWacoDracoPaco

Sibling names for Spartaco

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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