Platon
Meaning
the original Greek form of Plato, from platys, 'broad-shouldered'; used in Greek, Russian, and Ukrainian communities, with its own US record beginning only in the 2010s
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Platon has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See Platon in official records · Spain and Argentina
Spain
298 residents · #3,386 among men · mean age 11.5
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart.
Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Argentina
5 newborns given the name in 2024 · charted as share per 10,000 name registrations that year
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published.
Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Not on the record in Mexico City and Puerto Rico: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
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