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Spiros

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Spyros

Spiros has been given to 640 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1977, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Spiros, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Spiros: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Spyros

Greek

What Spiros means

Spiros is a alternate transcription of Spyros.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Spiros is used in Greek.

Origin, language, and formation

Spiros is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Spyros.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 640 boys were recorded with the name Spiros between 1918 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,059 in 1977.

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 Spiros?

Spiros 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 Spiros 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 Spiros. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Spiross were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Spiros was born before 1978 — so the typical Spiros is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
591
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1970s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Spiros 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (24)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,059
1977

Spellings of Spiros

Spiros is not the most common spelling — Spiro is, with 42.3% against Spiros's 26.8%.

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 Spiros is used

Across 1910–2025, Spiros was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 188,434 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 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. Spiros has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Spiros around the world

Where Spiros 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
    2003–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1951–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Spiros 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
#2,059
1977
Peak year
1977
24 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
640
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Spiros

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

PetrosKairosSpiroStavrosAndrosKyrosSpikeTheodorosErosAmbrosSpyrosSpiritLeandrosAlexandrosLambrosXandrosSpiveyKirosSpiridonSperosAerosCarosTewodrosTedros

Sibling names for Spiros

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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