Nero
- #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · boys
- 1918 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 526since 1914
Nero over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Nero has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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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 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #3,793 | 29 |
| 2023 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
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| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
| 1915 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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First appearance
1914
The first year at least five boys were named Nero! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nero is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Nero in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 914 spots since 2024 (#3,793 → #4,707)
- 1,273 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #4,707)
- 300 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1918 at #2,699 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1921, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 43,861
- Highest: 1 in 43,861 boys born in 2023 were named Nero (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,699 in 1918, was only 1 in 101,348 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 39.0% of all boys named Nero (205) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,699 (1918) | #3,165 |
| 1920s | 29 | #3,489 (1920) | #3,926 |
| 1930s | 18 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,222 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,714 (1951) | #3,819 |
| 1960s | 10 | #3,930 (1965) | #3,948 |
| 1970s | 12 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,303 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 35 | #8,310 (2009) | #9,556 |
| 2010s | 205 | #3,636 (2019) | #4,805 |
| 2020s | 161 | #3,117 (2023) | #4,201 |
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.
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