Given name & surname
Apolinar
Apolinar is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
Original SpanishApolinario
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Apolinar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,304
- 1,299 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,786 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,786 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,741 as a first name in 2020; 1,960 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Apolinar’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Apolinar has a related form in APOLINARIO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Apolinar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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