Argenis

#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births

Peak · boys
1990 · 81 births
Debut · boys
36 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,008
since 1981

Argenis over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Argenis has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #1,216, 1990boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#8,9108
2024#8,3129
2023#6,51713
2022#7,76810
2021#5,56216
2020#7,03411
2019#7,64310
2018#6,34513
2017#4,10525
2016#5,55516
2015#4,54521
2014#7,04811
2013#10,7286
2012#6,62612
2011#7,00911
2010#5,25117
2009#3,72128
2008#3,92126
2007#6,26213
2006#3,88825
2005#4,46419
2004#5,81313
2003#5,27114
2002#3,45025
2001#4,89015
2000#3,29925
1999#3,83419
1998#2,78229
1997#2,68029
1996#1,33481
1995#2,25335
1994#3,46919
1993#2,16236
1992#2,12836
1991#1,38267
1990#1,21681
1989#3,61815
1988#2,50923
1987#3,52113
1986#6,7215
1985#2,94216
1984#1,93328
1983#2,78716
1982#3,48212
1981#1,62936
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five boys were named Argenis! It came in at #1,629, and was given to 36 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Argenis
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 598 spots since 2024 (#8,312#8,910)
  • 1,876 spots since 2020 (#7,034#8,910)
  • 4,365 spots since 2015 (#4,545#8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 1990 at #1,216 (81 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 23,386
  • Highest: 1 in 23,386 boys born in 1996 were named Argenis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,216 in 1990, was only 1 in 25,358 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 42.9% of all boys named Argenis (432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s164#1,629 (1981)#3,238
1990s432#1,216 (1990)#2,324
2000s203#3,299 (2000)#4,498
2010s142#4,105 (2017)#6,486
2020s67#5,562 (2021)#7,351

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.

Argenis in 1997

boys
#2,680
29 births · 1 in 65,005 boys

Top boys' names in 1997

  1. #1Michael37,562
  2. #2Jacob34,163
  3. #3Matthew31,517
  4. #4Christopher29,108
  5. #5Joshua28,289
  6. #6Nicholas27,258
  7. #7Andrew25,208
  8. #8Brandon25,197
  9. #9Austin25,118
  10. #10Tyler24,879
  11. #2,680Argenis29
More about 1997

boys

1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 65,005 of them was named Argenis, which outranked 75.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Argenis
  1. #2,613Zachory30
  2. #2,613Zaine30
  3. #2,613Zamir30
  4. #2,680Argenis29
  5. #2,680Andrey29
  6. #2,680Aris29
  7. #2,680Baylen29
  8. #2,750Abbas28
  9. #2,750Ansel28
  10. #2,750Anselmo28

Tied with 69 names at #2,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. 1,420Jaret#2,145#725
  2. 712Kobe#1,265#553
  3. 580Ronaldo#1,465#885
  4. 420Jarett#1,334#914
  5. 416Gianni#1,093#677
Fallers
  1. 562Shaquille#662#1,224
  2. 373Dalvin#977#1,350
  3. 355Montel#990#1,345
  4. 328Codie#884#1,212
  5. 328Jair#884#1,212

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1997