Apollo
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #12,206 · #445 for boys in 2025, 708 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 820 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,000since 1965
Apollo over time
Rank among boys' names. Apollo has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #445 | 708 | |
| 2024 | — | #413 | 781 | |
| 2023 | — | #434 | 718 | |
| 2022 | — | #389 | 820 | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #397 | 787 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #448 | 666 |
| 2019 | — | #489 | 590 | |
| 2018 | — | #512 | 552 | |
| 2017 | — | #535 | 529 | |
| 2016 | — | #586 | 470 | |
| 2015 | — | #749 | 323 | |
| 2014 | — | #795 | 288 | |
| 2013 | — | #974 | 205 | |
| 2012 | — | #983 | 203 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,219 | 143 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,240 | 142 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,839 | 80 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,825 | 80 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,650 | 93 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,877 | 72 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,567 | 43 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,741 | 38 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,195 | 48 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,667 | 12 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,834 | 19 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,865 | 22 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,682 | 21 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,115 | 28 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,588 | 41 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,292 | 22 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,563 | 39 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,213 | 23 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,370 | 46 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,913 | 26 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
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| 1969 | — | #2,217 | 15 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Apollo! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Apollo
- 32 spots since 2024 (#413 → #445)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#448 → #445)
- 304 spots since 2015 (#749 → #445)
- Biggest jump: 236 spots in 2012 (#1,219 → #983)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2023 (#389 → #434)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2022 at #389 (820 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2012–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,129 boys born in 2022 were named Apollo (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,413 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Apollo (4,480) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #2,217 (1969) | #2,877 |
| 1970s | 135 | #1,370 (1979) | #3,291 |
| 1980s | 263 | #1,563 (1982) | #2,255 |
| 1990s | 144 | #2,828 (1991) | #4,680 |
| 2000s | 512 | #1,650 (2007) | #2,819 |
| 2010s | 3,445 | #489 (2019) | #808 |
| 2020s | 4,480 | #389 (2022) | #421 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Apollo in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 74,690 of them was named Apollo, which outranked 70.9% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,085Tyre25
- #2,085Tyrice25
- #2,085Waymon25
- #2,140Apollo24
- #2,140Alvino24
- #2,140Antonie24
- #2,140Baltazar24
- #2,208Alejandra23
- #2,208Ana23
- #2,208Anastacio23
Tied with 67 names at #2,140; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.