Primitivo
About 742 American babies have been named Primitivo since 1915, most of them around 1980. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 480 Primitivos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Primitivo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 742
- Estimated living today
- 480
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 2,444th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Primitivos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 742 babies given the name since 1915, about 480 are alive — 65 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Primitivo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Primitivo is most concentrated in Texas (9.4×), California (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular boys’ names the year Primitivo peaked:
Where Primitivo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,196 men called Primitivo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Primitivo | 51 | 0.622 | 200 |
| Salamanca | Primitivo | 78 | 0.490 | 231 |
| Palencia | Primitivo | 33 | 0.419 | 247 |
| Burgos | Primitivo | 75 | 0.413 | 243 |
| León | Primitivo | 87 | 0.399 | 271 |
| Segovia | Primitivo | 24 | 0.302 | 305 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Primitivo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.