Juvénal

given name · Latin script

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

Juvénal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Iuvenālis.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 9.6K
  • UYUruguay1 in 15K

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)

22,130 people, 2022

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela

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:

Locally spelled Juvenal in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa.

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)

Borrowed from Latin Iuvenālis.

Sources 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Juvénal 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 Juvénal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—22,1301 in 9.6K30K—1
VE Venezuela—4,4071 in 6.5K4.4K——
US United States—3,7511 in 89K3.7KJuvenal27
EC Ecuador—6741 in 25K674—1
BI Burundi—≈490 est.≈1 in 24K4—1
CR Costa Rica—2861 in 18K286——
UY Uruguay—2231 in 15K223——
CD Congo - Kinshasa#656≈43 est.≈1 in 2.4M2Juvenal6

22,130 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)

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

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Juvenal, Juvenalis

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Juvenál, Juvenal

  • Spanish given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Juvenal, Júvenal, Jüvenal, Jüvęnål

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

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Juvenal

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tanzania, Congo - Kinshasa, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Juvenal

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Also written Juvenal

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ювенал, Juvenal, Жувенал, Yuvenal

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Louis-Paul-Antoine-Juvénal Didier, b. 1786Juvénal Habyarimana, b. 1937Juvénal Ilunga Muya, b. 1967Juvénal Munubo Mubi, b. 1979Alban Ivanov, b. 1984

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Juvénal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CD Congo - KinshasaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—2#351

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 Juvénal mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin Iuvenālis. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
Is Juvénal a male or female name?
Juvénal 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 Juvénal have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Juvénal, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Juvénal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Juvénal is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 6.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Juvénal?
In Brazil, the national register counted 22,130 people named Juvénal in 2022, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
How common is Juvénal compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Juvénal is the 656th most common given name of 20,652 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, “Juvénal” — the 656th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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