How Many People Are Named Apollo?
people named Apollo are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 38,325 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,012 babies named Apollo in Social Security records from 1965 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
820 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Greek Απολλων (Apollon), which is of unknown meaning, though perhaps related to Indo-European *apelo "strength". Another theory states that Apollo can be equated with Appaliunas, an Anatolian god whose name possibly means "father lion" or "father light". The Greeks later associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb απολλυμι (apollymi) meaning "to destroy". In Greek mythology Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin of Artemis. He was the god of prophecy, medicine, music, art, law, beauty, and wisdom. Later he also became the god of the sun and light.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Apollo (99.9%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Apollo alive today is about 8 years old, and 95% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 10 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Apollo first appears in the records in 1965 and was given most often in 2022, to 820 babies. In 2025, 708 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1965 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Apollo has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #389, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #445.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #445 |
| Best rank | #389 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #426 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Apollo alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Apollo were born in California than in any other state: about 1,348 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Apollo was given 2.3 times as often in Nevada, 1.9 times in Washington and 1.8 times in Colorado.
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