Argenis
#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 81 births
- Debut · boys
- 36 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,008since 1981
Argenis over time
Rank among boys' names. Argenis has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #1,334 | 81 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #2,162 | 36 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 36 |
| 1991 | #1,382 | 67 |
| 1990 | #1,216 | 81 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #1,629 | 36 |
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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.
Where Argenis is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#394 · 1 in 4,205
Best ever in a state: #394 in New York, 1981.
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| New York | #394 | 27 | 1 in 4,205 |
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See more about Argenis
- 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)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1990 at #1,216 (81 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 42.9% of all boys named Argenis (432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 164 | #1,629 (1981) | #3,238 |
| 1990s | 432 | #1,216 (1990) | #2,324 |
| 2000s | 203 | #3,299 (2000) | #4,498 |
| 2010s | 142 | #4,105 (2017) | #6,486 |
| 2020s | 67 | #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 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 49,755 of them was named Argenis, which outranked 77.7% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,602Regan37
- #1,602Rogers37
- #1,602Vijay37
- #1,629Argenis36
- #1,629Ambrose36
- #1,629Anthoney36
- #1,629Antwane36
- #1,661Aidan35
- #1,661Alessandro35
- #1,661Allison35
Tied with 31 names at #1,629; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.