Spiro
Spiro reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 1,699, and has been recorded 1,011 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 660 Spiros are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Spiro
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,011
- Estimated living today
- 660
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 1,699th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Spiros are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,011 babies given the name since 1913, about 660 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 the name comes from
Origin Greek
Probably borrowed from Albanian Spiro.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Spiros
- Spiro Agnew (1918–1996)vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973
- Spiro Samara (1861–1917)Greek composer
- Spiro Koleka (1908–2001)Albanian civil engineer, army official and communist politician
People named Spiro with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Spiro is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Spiro is most concentrated in New York (9.5×), Illinois (5.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Spiro peaked:
Related names
Spiro 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.