Fidel

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Latín Fidelis: 'digno de fe', 'fiel'

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.3K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.8K

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)

≈29,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
358 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FidelLatin(measured from records)
ФидельCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Latín Fidelis: 'digno de fe', 'fiel'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fidel 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 Fidel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈29,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Fidel78
PE Peru#264≈25,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Fidel74
US United States—21,4201 in 16K21KFidel358
BO Bolivia#298≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Fidel39
CO Colombia#502≈9,300 est.≈1 in 5.3K11Fidel92
EC Ecuador—5,8211 in 2.9K5.8KFidel42
SV El Salvador#287≈5,400 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Fidel37
PY Paraguay—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Fidel30
MX Mexico#243——712Fidel181

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

Fidel is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fidèl, Fidél, Fîdêl, Fïdęl, Fïdèl

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fidèl, Fídel

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, United States

    Also written Fidēl

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Fîdèl, Fidęl

  • Lao given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ฟิเดล, ฟีเดล, ฟูเดล, ฟีเดลี, Fídél

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Fidèl

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Fīdēl, Fidél

56 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fidel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Faithful.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Fiel, que tiene o conserva la fe

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Spanish: from the Late Latin name Fidelis . ‘faithful’. St Fidelis (d. c. 570) seems to have come from the East, reaching Mérida in the company of merchants; eventually he became bishop of that city. The name is now chiefly associated with that of the left-wing Cuban leader Fidel Castro (b. 1927). Cognate: Italian: Fedele .

    as a word

  • In Polish, vielle (medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, cheerful

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Vicente Fidel López, b. 1815Fidel Sánchez Hernández, b. 1917Fidel Castro, b. 1926Fidel V. Ramos, b. 1928Fidel Uriarte, b. 1945Fidel Ángel Castro Diaz-Balart, b. 1949Coti, b. 1973Fidel Chaves de la Torre, b. 1989Fidel Martínez, b. 1990Fidel Escobar, b. 1995

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 Fidel,Hi Fidel, (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 90 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Fidel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021K#1,536
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.8K#265
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—712#114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202086#1,536
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202584—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—11#110
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20249—

Reference works 6

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 Fidel mean, and where does it come from?
Latín Fidelis: 'digno de fe', 'fiel'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Fidel?
A machine transcription gives /fidɛl/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Fidel a male or female name?
Fidel 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 Fidel?
In the etymology graph, Fidelis is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Fidel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Fidel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fidel.
How common is the name Fidel?
In the United States, the national register counted 21,420 people named Fidel in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Fidel compared with other names?
In Mexico, Fidel is the 243rd most common given name of 193,485 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, “Fidel” — the 243rd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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