Parmenio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek, from parameínō 'remain beside'; 'persevering, faithful'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/paɾmenjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Parmenio is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 162K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 200K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Greek, from parameínō 'remain beside'; 'persevering, faithful'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world
(measured from records)Parmenio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Parmenio | 31 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Parmenio | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 66 | Parmenio | 19 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Parmenio | 5 |
| AR Argentina | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 2 | Parmenio | 17 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 843K | — | Parmenio | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | Parmenio | 3 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Parmenio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Macedonian general
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Constante
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latin, A distinguished Macedonian general under Philip II and Alexander the Great
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Parmenio Adamsb. 1776USAmerican politician
- Parmenio Bettolib. 1835ITItalian journalist and writer (1835–1907)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 66 | #24,503 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #59,447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 34 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 25 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 23 | #59,196 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #14,027 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1952 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1943 | 2 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #120 |
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 Parmenio mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek, from parameínō 'remain beside'; 'persevering, faithful' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Parmenio?
- A machine transcription gives /paɾmenjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Parmenio a male or female name?
- Parmenio 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 Parmenio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Parmenio in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parmenio.
- How common is the name Parmenio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 59 people named Parmenio in 2022, about 1 in 3.6 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/parmenioThe 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, “Parmenio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.