Hércules
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hercules (Greek demigod and hero)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈɛh.ku.lis/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Hércules is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 19K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 128K
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
10,962 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hercules in US United States.
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)Hercules (Greek demigod and hero)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hércules 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,962 | 1 in 19K | 11K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 791 | 1 in 421K | 2.7K | Hercules | 257 |
| SE Sweden | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | 6 |
| ES Spain | 37 | 1 in 1.4M | 86 | — | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 32 | 1 in 540K | 97 | — | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
10,962 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)- Hercule, Lord of Monacob. 1562MCnot in their usual nameMonegasque noble (1562-1604)
- Ercole, Marquis of Bauxb. 1623FRnot in their usual nameMonegasque prince
- Hércules Gallób. 1869BRBrazilian politician
- Hércules de Mirandab. 1912BRBrazilian footballer (1912–1982)
- Hércules Barsottib. 1914BRBrazilian industrial designer and painter (1914-2010)
- Hércules Azcuneb. 1928UYUruguayan athletics competitor (1928-2004)
- Britob. 1939BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (1939-2026)
- Hércules Silveirab. 1939BRBrazilian politician
- Hércules Corrêa Torresb. 1940BRBrazilian footballer
- Hérculesb. 2000BRBrazilian footballer
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)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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,139 |
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 Hércules mean, and where does it come from?
- Hercules (Greek demigod and hero) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hércules?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈɛh.ku.lis/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈeɾ.ku.les/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Hércules a male or female name?
- Hércules 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 Hércules have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Hércules, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hércules most common?
- Hércules is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hércules?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,962 people named Hércules in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hércules?
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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%A9rculesThe 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, “Hércules”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.