Heraclea
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Greek feminine of Heracleos; "belonging to Heracles" (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 1953
Heraclea is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 360Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 940Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.4Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 361K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Greek feminine of Heracleos; "belonging to Heracles".
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Heraclea is read
(measured from records)Heraclea is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
Greek feminine of Heracleos; "belonging to Heracles".
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English26%
The name of numerous Hellenistic cities named after Heracles.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Romanian7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Heraclea in Romanian.
- Portuguese5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Heraclea in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Heraclea 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 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Heraclea | 5 |
| MX Mexico | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Heraclea | 13 |
| PE Peru | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 943K | — | Heraclea | 11 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Heraclea | 5 |
| AR Argentina | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | 2 | Heraclea | 9 |
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: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Heraclea is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Heraclea (the name of numerous Hellenistic cities named after Heracles):
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heraclea mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek feminine of Heracleos; "belonging to Heracles". Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Heraclea a male or female name?
- Heraclea is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Heraclea?
- Mondonomo estimates about 321 people named Heraclea in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heraclea. After it come Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Heraclea?
- Mondonomo estimates about 320 people in the Philippines have Heraclea as their first given name, about 1 in 361 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heracleaThe 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, “Heraclea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.