Hersilia

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Latín; nombre legendario de la esposa de Rómulo; se ha propuesto relación con gr

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 4.1M
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hersilia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

52 people, 2022

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

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:

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)

recorded in Spanish

Latín; nombre legendario de la esposa de Rómulo; se ha propuesto relación con gr. 'rocío'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hersilia 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 Hersilia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil521 in 4.1M62——
NL Netherlands141 in 1.2M73—4
FR France≈6 est.≈1 in 11M—Hersilia21
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——
AR Argentina——2——

52 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hersília

20 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)

Hersilia 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, The wife of Romulus

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Hersilia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—62#30,394
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202252—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—52#64,892
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—14#18,281
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19593—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19593—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19583—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19583—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19513—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19513—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19982—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)19982—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Hersilia?
A machine transcription gives /eɾsilja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Hersilia mean?
Recorded meaning: Latín; nombre legendario de la esposa de Rómulo; se ha propuesto relación con gr.
Is Hersilia a male or female name?
Hersilia 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.
What are other forms of the name Hersilia?
In the etymology graph, Ercilia and Ersilia are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hersilia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 52 people named Hersilia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hersilia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hersilia is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hersilia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 52 people named Hersilia in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.

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The 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, “Hersilia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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