Algernon is a boy's name of English origin meaning “having mustaches and mustache.” In England & Wales it was given to 5 boys in 2022.
Algernon belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “having mustaches and mustache” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Algernon first appears in Social Security records in 1886. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #965 in 1886, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 985 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Algernon means “having mustaches and mustache” in its English roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Algernon is a boy name. In England & Wales, 5 babies received the name in 2022.
Algernon comes from the English & American tradition.
Algernon first appears in US records in 1886. Its best-ever ranking was #965 in 1886, and 0 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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