Emérito
given name · Latin script
Meaning: emeritus (retired but retaining an honorific version of previous title)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emérito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 76K
- USUnited States1 in 911K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Emerito in PH Philippines, US United States, PE Peru and 4 more.
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)
emeritus (retired but retaining an honorific version of previous title)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Emérito 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Emerito | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Emerito | 3 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Emerito | 26 |
| HN Honduras | #867 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Emerito | 7 |
| US United States | — | 365 | 1 in 911K | 361 | Emerito | 91 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2 | — | 9 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #503 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Emerito | 7 |
| NI Nicaragua | #858 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Emerito | 5 |
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; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emérito Sheppardb. 1904UYUruguayan lyricist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #1,197 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Emérito mean, and where does it come from?
- emeritus (retired but retaining an honorific version of previous title) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Emérito a male or female name?
- Emérito 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.
- In which country does Emérito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Emérito in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emerito.
- How common is the name Emérito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 365 people named Emérito in 2020, about 1 in 911 thousand residents.
- How common is Emérito compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Emérito is the 503rd most common given name of 1,886 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/em%C3%A9ritoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Emérito” — the 503rd most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.