Homero
#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 59 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,763since 1917
Homero over time
Rank among boys' names. Homero 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #3,090 | 36 |
| 2013 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #2,203 | 59 |
| 2010 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #2,416 | 53 |
| 2006 | #2,150 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,114 | 58 |
| 2004 | #2,024 | 59 |
| 2003 | #2,055 | 55 |
| 2002 | #1,609 | 75 |
| 2001 | #1,659 | 70 |
| 2000 | #1,782 | 61 |
| 1999 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #1,730 | 56 |
| 1996 | #1,445 | 71 |
| 1995 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #1,288 | 82 |
| 1993 | #1,524 | 60 |
| 1992 | #1,572 | 56 |
| 1991 | #1,528 | 57 |
| 1990 | #1,500 | 57 |
| 1989 | #1,476 | 56 |
| 1988 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #1,484 | 48 |
| 1986 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #1,389 | 49 |
| 1984 | #1,320 | 50 |
| 1983 | #1,470 | 42 |
| 1982 | #1,242 | 56 |
| 1981 | #1,246 | 54 |
| 1980 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,270 | 52 |
| 1978 | #1,299 | 48 |
| 1977 | #1,407 | 42 |
| 1976 | #1,067 | 61 |
| 1975 | #1,099 | 58 |
| 1974 | #1,099 | 56 |
| 1973 | #1,054 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,163 | 49 |
| 1971 | #1,272 | 43 |
| 1970 | #1,297 | 41 |
| 1969 | #1,252 | 40 |
| 1968 | #1,147 | 43 |
| 1967 | #1,287 | 34 |
| 1966 | #1,723 | 20 |
| 1965 | #1,233 | 38 |
| 1964 | #1,096 | 48 |
| 1963 | #1,548 | 26 |
| 1962 | #1,187 | 43 |
| 1961 | #1,156 | 46 |
| 1960 | #1,463 | 30 |
| 1959 | #1,265 | 38 |
| 1958 | #1,396 | 31 |
| 1957 | #1,457 | 29 |
| 1956 | #1,676 | 22 |
| 1955 | #1,273 | 35 |
| 1954 | #1,559 | 24 |
| 1953 | #1,508 | 25 |
| 1952 | #1,297 | 33 |
| 1951 | #1,295 | 32 |
| 1950 | #1,313 | 30 |
| 1949 | #1,348 | 29 |
| 1948 | #1,559 | 22 |
| 1947 | #1,394 | 28 |
| 1946 | #1,217 | 33 |
| 1945 | #1,697 | 16 |
| 1944 | #1,574 | 19 |
| 1943 | #1,461 | 23 |
| 1942 | #1,799 | 16 |
| 1941 | #1,759 | 16 |
| 1940 | #1,802 | 15 |
| 1939 | #1,712 | 16 |
| 1938 | #1,559 | 19 |
| 1937 | #1,913 | 14 |
| 1936 | #1,540 | 19 |
| 1935 | #1,584 | 19 |
| 1934 | #2,022 | 13 |
| 1933 | #1,770 | 16 |
| 1932 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #2,328 | 11 |
| 1930 | #2,293 | 12 |
| 1929 | #2,096 | 14 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #2,523 | 11 |
| 1926 | #2,186 | 14 |
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| 1924 | #2,822 | 10 |
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| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Homero! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Homero is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#340 · 1 in 2,578
- California#1,009 · 1 in 21,473
Best ever in a state: #340 in Texas, 1974.
Show every state
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| Texas | #340 | 41 | 1 in 2,578 |
| California | #1,009 | 7 | 1 in 21,473 |
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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 Homero
- 1,175 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #5,608)
- 1,955 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #5,608)
- 2,177 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #5,608)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1973 at #1,054 (59 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 43 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,561 boys born in 1994 were named Homero (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,054 in 1973, was only 1 in 26,417 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.8% of all boys named Homero (593) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 71 | #2,096 (1929) | #2,877 |
| 1930s | 149 | #1,540 (1936) | #1,919 |
| 1940s | 217 | #1,217 (1946) | #1,561 |
| 1950s | 299 | #1,265 (1959) | #1,404 |
| 1960s | 368 | #1,096 (1964) | #1,309 |
| 1970s | 509 | #1,054 (1973) | #1,203 |
| 1980s | 511 | #1,187 (1980) | #1,377 |
| 1990s | 593 | #1,288 (1994) | #1,613 |
| 2000s | 575 | #1,609 (2002) | #2,151 |
| 2010s | 331 | #2,203 (2011) | #3,523 |
| 2020s | 135 | #3,653 (2020) | #4,547 |
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.
Homero in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 28,077 of them was named Homero, which outranked 81.7% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,091Merlin57
- #1,091Orville57
- #1,091Rasheed57
- #1,099Homero56
- #1,099Amir56
- #1,099Carmine56
- #1,099Emerson56
- #1,109Jerad55
- #1,109Jodie55
- #1,109Loyd55
Tied with 9 names at #1,099; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.