Calogero
Masculine · “good old age”
Calogero is a Sicilian name with a Greek word inside it, and the word is beautiful: kalos and geras, good and old age. In Byzantine Greek it was the ordinary term for a monk, since a monk was a man who had aged well, and Sicily kept the name long after it stopped speaking Greek.
How old is the name Calogero?
Calogero first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Calogero alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 500 people named Calogero are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Calogero most popular?
Calogero peaked in 1972, reaching #2819 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 2,038 places below that high. See the whole 1972 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kalogeros to Calogero
The story of Calogero
Sicily was Greek-speaking for a thousand years and Byzantine for three centuries after that, and a layer of Greek names survived the Norman conquest of the island and everything that came after. Calogero is the most durable of them, carried by a hermit venerated across the center and south of the island, whose shrines at Sciacca and Agrigento draw processions still. The name has stayed local: it is ordinary in Sicily and rare in the rest of Italy, and it came to American records with Sicilian families between the eighteen-eighties and the nineteen-twenties.
Meaning
good old age; a monk
Greek kalos, good or beautiful, joined to geras, old age. Byzantine Greek used kalogeros as the everyday word for a monk, and the name follows that sense as much as the literal one.
How the name formed
- kalogeros
- Calogerus
- Calogero
Related forms: Καλόγερος · Calòggiru · Calogerus
Pronouncing Calogero
kah-LOH-jeh-roh
Four syllables, stress on the second, the g soft as in gem. Sicilian softens it further; English speakers reach for a hard g and have to be corrected once.
Nicknames for Calogero
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 202421 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2819reached in 1972
- Change vs 2024
- −4.8%20 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Calogero in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Καλόγερος in Greek — transliteration
- Calòggiru in Sicilian — same name
- Calogerus in Latin — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California.
Calogeros among us
people named Calogero are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Calogero
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Arsen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Calogero's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arsen climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arsen's path sketches the road Calogero is walking now.
Calogero sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Calogero beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Calogero in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a documented Greek word and a Sicilian cult that is still visibly alive.
- Lillo is a warm, established short form with a history of its own.
- It is genuinely rare outside Sicily, so it belongs to the family that gives it.
- Four syllables with a soft g is a lot to explain at every introduction.
- American families have historically substituted Charlie, which severs the connection entirely.
- Outside Sicilian communities nobody will have met it, so it is spelled out constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Calogeros are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Calogero are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Calogero in 2025?
- Calogero ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Calogero?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Calogero — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Calogero with classmates?
- Calogero will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Calogero
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