Nicéforo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nevil, Nevile, Nevill, Nevyl, Nevyle, El que lleva la victoria
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 1967
Nicéforo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 135K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 350K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Niceforo in PE Peru, AR Argentina, US United States and 3 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
(measured from records)Nevil, Nevile, Nevill, Nevyl, Nevyle, El que lleva la victoria
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nicéforo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Niceforo | 29 |
| AR Argentina | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 2 | Niceforo | 23 |
| PH Philippines | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 350K | listed | Niceforo | 8 |
| US United States | 195 | 1 in 1.7M | 194 | Niceforo | 61 |
| CO Colombia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Niceforo | 17 |
| ES Spain | 69 | 1 in 725K | 75 | Niceforo | 12 |
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: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Nicéforo Zambranob. 1861MXMexican politician (1861-1940)
- Nicéforo Guerrero Mendozab. 1897MXMexican politician
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1959 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1967 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1937 | 2 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Nicéforo mean, and where does it come from?
- Nevil, Nevile, Nevill, Nevyl, Nevyle, El que lleva la victoria Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- Is Nicéforo a male or female name?
- Nicéforo 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 Nicéforo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Nicéforo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niceforo.
- How common is the name Nicéforo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 195 people named Nicéforo in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nic%C3%A9foroThe 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, “Nicéforo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.