Sergio
Masculine
Sergio is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 81,878 boys against 355 girls since 1880.
Sergio comes from Sergius, the name of one of the old patrician families of Rome, and it has been in continuous use ever since — carried by four medieval popes and by generations of Italian and Spanish speakers who kept the Latin bones and softened the ending. Three syllables, an easy roll from the throat to the front of the mouth, and it lands the same way in Madrid, Milan and Monterrey.
How old is the name Sergio?
Sergio first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Sergio alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 78,000 people named Sergio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sergio most popular?
Sergio peaked in 1992, reaching #156 nationally. Today it ranks #441, 285 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sergius to Sergio
The story of Sergio
The name begins as a Roman surname, the mark of a family rather than a meaning, and it survived the empire the way many such names did — through the Church. Two soldier-martyrs, Sergius and Bacchus, were venerated across Syria and the eastern Mediterranean from late antiquity, and their cult carried the name far beyond Italy; four popes took it in the early Middle Ages. From the Latin Sergius the vernaculars made their own: Sergio in Italian and Spanish, Sérgio in Portuguese, Serge in French, Sergey in Russian, where it became one of the most-used names of all. Sergio reached American records through Italian and Spanish-speaking families, and it remains most at home in the Southwest, Texas, California and Florida.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Sergius was a Roman family name, and nobody has established what it meant. It may not be Latin at all — Etruscan is a live possibility among scholars, as it is for several early Roman gens names. The gloss "servant" or "attendant" is often repeated, borrowed from Latin servus, but the link has never been demonstrated. What is documented is the family itself: the gens Sergia, present in Rome from the republic onward.
How the name formed
- Sergius
- Sergio
Related forms: Sergio · Sergio · Sérgio · Serge · Sergey · Sergi
Pronouncing Sergio
SEHR-hee-oh (Spanish) · SEHR-joh (Italian)
The g does the dividing. Spanish gives it a breathy h; Italian gives it a soft j. English speakers unfamiliar with either often land on SUR-jee-oh, which is close enough to be understood everywhere. Any of the three is a real pronunciation of the name.
Nicknames for Sergio
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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
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 19952,245 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #156reached in 1992
- Change vs 2023
- −9.0%714 in 2025, from 785
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.
Sergio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sergio in Spanish — same name
- Sergio in Italian — same name
- Sérgio in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Serge in French — related form
- Sergey in Russian — related form
- Sergi in Catalan — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Sergios among us
people named Sergio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,392 born in 2025 was named Sergio
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 Stacy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sergio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stacy climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stacy's path sketches the road Sergio is walking now.
Sergio 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
Where Sergio is headed
Sergio should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Sergio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sergio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Works unchanged in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, with close relatives in French and Russian — a name that crosses borders without needing to be respelled.
- Spelling is short, phonetic and already familiar to American ears; almost nobody has to ask how to write it.
- A documented line running from the Roman gens Sergia through medieval popes to the present — few names have a record that long and that unbroken.
- Established short forms in real use, from Sergi to Checho, so there is an informal register ready-made.
- The pronunciation splits by language: SEHR-hee-oh, SEHR-joh, or an anglicized SUR-jee-oh. A bilingual household should decide which one is his, because he will be offered all three.
- In the US it reads clearly as Spanish or Italian, which is a gift if that is your family and a slight mismatch if it isn't — worth thinking about alongside the surname.
- It is stepping back from its high-water mark, so it sits closest to people now in their late twenties and thirties rather than to babies. That also means he is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
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Frequently asked
- How many Sergios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 78,000 people named Sergio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sergio in 2025?
- Sergio ranks #441 among US boy names in 2025, with 714 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sergio?
- About 1 in every 2,392 US boys born in 2025 was named Sergio — 714 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sergio with classmates?
- Sergio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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