Cándido

given name · Latin script

Meaning: straightforward

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kandido/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cándido is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 5.4K
  • UYUruguay1 in 5.7K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

9,184 people

Sources
215 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Candido in US United States, ES Spain, PR Puerto Rico.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

straightforward

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cándido counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cándido is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—9,1841 in 5.4K10KCandido32
BR Brazil—9,0261 in 23K13K—7
US United States—4,8311 in 69K4.8KCandido215
VE Venezuela—4,2631 in 6.7K4.3K—1
UY Uruguay—5961 in 5.7K940——
PR Puerto Rico#181———Candido4

9,184 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cándido is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Candido, Cändido, Cândido, Cãndido, Càndido

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Candido, Cândido, Cãndido

  • Portuguese given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic

    Also written Candido, คันติโต, Kantito, Cândido, Khantito

  • Russian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Кандидо, Candido, Kandido, Кандиду, Cândido

18 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Cándido Bareiro, b. 1833Cándido López, b. 1840José Alejandrino, b. 1870Cándido Camero, b. 1921Candida Höfer, b. 1944Candy Raymond, b. 1950Candida Alvarez, b. 1955Cándido Muatetema Rivas, b. 1960Candida Morvillo, b. 1974Cándido Ramírez, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Cándido,Hi Cándido, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cándido mean, and where does it come from?
straightforward Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cándido?
A machine transcription gives /kandido/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Cándido a male or female name?
Cándido is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Cándido?
In the etymology graph, Candid and Candidus are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Cándido have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Cándido, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candido.
Where is Cándido most common?
Cándido is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cándido?
In Spain, the national register counted 9,184 people named Cándido, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
How common is Cándido compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Cándido is the 181st most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cándido” — the 181st most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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