Apolinar vs Apollo
American parents have registered 9,012 Apollos since 1880, against 1,304 Apolinars. Apollo is still ahead, with 708 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Apolinar Apollo
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Apolinar for 67 years and Apollo for 41 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
- 1915–1977 Apolinar ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1978–1988 Apollo ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1992–1997 Apolinar ahead
- 1998–2025 Apollo ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Apolinar | Apollo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,304 | 9,012 |
| Most in one year | 32 | 820 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | 708 |
| Estimated living today | 860 | 8,900 |
| Median age today | 41 | 5 |
| Peak year | 1981 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 1,942nd boys | 389th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,714th | 445th |
| First recorded | 1915 | 1965 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 1,299 | 12 / 9,000 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Apolinars alive today are over 41; half the Apollos are over 5. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Apolinar and Apollo.