Cosmo
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #1,932 for boys in 2025, 80 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1913 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,949since 1910
Cosmo over time
Rank among boys' names. Cosmo has never cracked the top 900 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 | — | #1,932 | 80 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,685 | 99 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,744 | 94 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #1,706 | 99 |
| 2021 | — | #1,931 | 78 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,264 | 60 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,626 | 49 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,893 | 41 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,624 | 21 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,431 | 32 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,997 | 14 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,621 | 20 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,482 | 16 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,356 | 22 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,227 | 33 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,653 | 41 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,838 | 22 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,095 | 29 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,721 | 22 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,986 | 18 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,708 | 19 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,854 | 16 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,407 | 12 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,606 | 14 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,243 | 17 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,682 | 11 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,216 | 13 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,044 | 16 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,279 | 13 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,322 | 13 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,973 | 17 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,026 | 16 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,837 | 19 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,480 | 28 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,551 | 24 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,701 | 20 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,598 | 22 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,879 | 16 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,754 | 18 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,656 | 20 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,599 | 22 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,949 | 14 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,988 | 13 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,399 | 25 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,244 | 31 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,230 | 29 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,179 | 11 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,297 | 26 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,337 | 25 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,313 | 26 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,326 | 25 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,326 | 26 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,159 | 32 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,141 | 35 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,239 | 31 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,116 | 39 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,173 | 35 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,057 | 43 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,041 | 45 | |
| 1926 | — | #963 | 50 | |
| 1925 | — | #956 | 50 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,020 | 48 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,026 | 47 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,120 | 40 | |
| 1921 | — | #953 | 54 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,119 | 40 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,047 | 42 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,031 | 43 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,132 | 35 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,265 | 28 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,159 | 31 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,221 | 23 | |
| 1913 | — | #930 | 28 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,527 | 11 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,387 | 7 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,421 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cosmo! It came in at #1,421, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1911, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Cosmo is popular in 1918
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#290 · 1 in 4,653
- New York#409 · 1 in 8,162
- Pennsylvania#572 · 1 in 17,281
Best ever in a state: #120 in Rhode Island, 1919.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #290 | 7 | 1 in 4,653 |
| New York | #409 | 11 | 1 in 8,162 |
| Pennsylvania | #572 | 5 | 1 in 17,281 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cosmo
- 247 spots since 2024 (#1,685 → #1,932)
- 332 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #1,932)
- 1,499 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #1,932)
- Biggest jump: 597 spots in 1913 (#1,527 → #930)
- Biggest drop: 291 spots in 1914 (#930 → #1,221)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1913 at #930 (28 births)
- Births halved by 1940, 27 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1925–1926
- Highest: 1 in 17,403 boys born in 2024 were named Cosmo (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,351 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #930 in 1913, was only 1 in 18,306 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.3% of all boys named Cosmo (510) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 254 | #930 (1913) | #1,212 |
| 1920s | 452 | #953 (1921) | #1,043 |
| 1930s | 286 | #1,116 (1930) | #1,275 |
| 1940s | 191 | #1,230 (1941) | #1,757 |
| 1950s | 191 | #1,480 (1956) | #1,821 |
| 1960s | 121 | #1,973 (1960) | #2,495 |
| 1970s | 128 | #1,989 (1970) | #3,144 |
| 1980s | 108 | #2,709 (1982) | #4,152 |
| 1990s | 172 | #2,685 (1994) | #3,840 |
| 2000s | 254 | #2,653 (2005) | #3,801 |
| 2010s | 282 | #2,626 (2019) | #4,086 |
| 2020s | 510 | #1,685 (2024) | #1,877 |
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.
Cosmo in 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
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1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 23,569 of them was named Cosmo, which outranked 78.6% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).