Americus

Where Americus comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin Americus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Americus
  • 4 syllables
Along the way
  1. 2001
    First appearance
    #3,486 among girls, 38 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2001
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2002
    Peak, #2,745
    55 babies named Americus — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,828.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.