Plàcido

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Plàcido is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 14K
  • ECEcuador1 in 14K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 people, est.

Sources
176 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Placido in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, PE Peru and 5 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)

From the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’.

Sources 3

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Plàcido 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 Plàcido is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈6,800 est.≈1 in 16KlistedPlacido38
ES Spain#8973,5671 in 14K3.9KPlacido86
PE Peru—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 12K—Placido36
AR Argentina#998≈2,700 est.≈1 in 17K160Placido35
BR Brazil—2,3211 in 91K3.3KPlacido87
EC Ecuador#8961,2011 in 14K1.2KPlacido17
BO Bolivia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Placido16
DO Dominican Republic#674≈890 est.≈1 in 12K—Placido21

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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry 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)

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

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Placido, Plácido

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Plàcido under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Plàcido mean, and where does it come from?
From the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
In which country does Plàcido have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Plàcido in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placido.
How common is the name Plàcido?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,567 people named Plàcido, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Plàcido compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Plàcido is the 674th most common given name of 44,971 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, “Plàcido” — the 674th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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