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Ugo

Boys' name

Possibly to think, consider, through Hugo

Ugo has been given to 312 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1921, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Ugo, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ugo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to think, consider, through Hugo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ugo means

Ugo belongs to the name family reached through Ugo → Hugo → *hugiz. Its meaning is “to think, consider”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ugo is used in Italian and Latin.

Ugo comes through Latin Ugō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hugh, Hugo and *hugiz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ugo is pronounced /ˈu.ɡo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 312 boys were recorded with the name Ugo between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,824 in 1921.

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 Ugo?

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

When Ugos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ugo was born before 1927 — so the typical Ugo is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
41.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
99
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1920s — 41.3% of all recorded uses (129).

Is Ugo 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 1921 (20)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,824
1921

Where Ugo is used

Across 1910–2025, Ugo was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 223,358 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 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. Ugo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ugo around the world

Where Ugo 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
    2005–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1910–2025
    #630
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,766
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1954–1973
    #454
    in 1973

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.

Ugo 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
#1,824
1921
Peak year
1921
20 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
312
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ugo

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

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Sibling names for Ugo

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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