Hécto

Name: Hécto: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common

CLChile≈1 in 280K(inferred from the name graph)
GTGuatemala≈1 in 283K
COColombia≈1 in 428K

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.

: Brazil (measured from records)
Sources: 42 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Hecto

Locally spelled Hecto in US United States, BR Brazil, CO Colombia and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hécto 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 Hécto is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
BR Brazil	167	1 in 1.3M	167	Hecto	16
CO Colombia	≈120 est.	≈1 in 428K	—	Hecto	13
US United States	≈81 est.	≈1 in 4.1M	—	Hecto	42
CL Chile	≈65 est.	≈1 in 280K	—	Hecto	9
GT Guatemala	≈61 est.	≈1 in 283K	—	Hecto	3
UY Uruguay	≈3 est.	≈1 in 1M	1	—	5

167 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)

Hécto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Hecto

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hécto under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hécto a male or female name?: Hécto 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 Hécto have the most bearers?: In Brazil, the national register counted about 167 people named Hécto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hecto.
How common is the name Hécto?: In Brazil, the national register counted 167 people named Hécto in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

What do you want to know about Hécto?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9cto

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 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, “Hécto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)