How rare is the name Aldo?

18,932 people in the United States have the first name Aldo, about 1 in 15,953. It ranks #1,656 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALDO

#1,656

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
18,932
About
1 in 15,953
This common or more
76.2%
Who bears it

Of the 18,932 people named Aldo, 84.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 13.8% as White. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aldo peaked in 2007, when 666 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19062025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
666
In 2025*
241 ▼64%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 17,743 babies have been given the name since 1906. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Aldo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,199. The largest share of babies named Aldo, 36.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1900s#3,69518
1910s#1,290719
1920s#1,2581,134
1930s#1,865485
1940s#3,352204
1950s#2,443483
1960s#2,188680
1970s#2,228791
1980s#1,8041,385
1990s#1,6822,038
2000s#1,1994,303
2010s#1,3374,037
2020s#1,9431,466
Greatest Generation 1901–279.7%
Silent Generation 1928–454.2%
Baby boom 1946–645%
Generation X 1965–807.4%
Millennials 1981–9614.1%
Generation Z 1997–1236.7%
2013 and later23%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Aldo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aldo has been most common in Nevada (3.2×), California (3.1×), and Texas (3.1×), and least common in Ohio (0.08×).

14,505 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Aldo, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Aldo ranks #95,802 of 156,621, with 204 people. See Aldo as a last name

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