Plácido

given name · Latin script

Meaning: placid

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 175K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 14K
  • ECEcuador1 in 14K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

3,567 people

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

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 Placido in US United States, ES Spain.

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)

placid

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Plácido 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 Plácido is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3,5671 in 14K3.9KPlacido24
BR Brazil2,3211 in 91K3.3K—3
US United States1,9001 in 175K1.9KPlacido204
VE Venezuela1,5951 in 18K1.6K——
EC Ecuador1,2011 in 14K1.2K—3
UY Uruguay1351 in 25K159——
CR Costa Rica711 in 72K71——

3,567 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)

Plácido is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Placido

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Placido

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Placido, Plàcido

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Russia, Italy, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Placido, Пласидо, Plasido, Плячыда

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Japan, Spain

    Also written Placido

24 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)

1700180019002000Placido Costanzi, b. 1702Plácido de Jove y Hevia, b. 1823Plácido Galindo, b. 1906Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, b. 1906Plácido Fernández Viagas, b. 1924Plácido Arango Arias, b. 1931Plácido Bilbao, b. 1940Plácido Domingo, b. 1941Plácido Domingo Jr., b. 1965Plácido Polanco, b. 1975

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)

InformalHola Plácido,Hi Plácido, (English)

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)

Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Plácido
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.3K#4,378

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 Plácido mean, and where does it come from?
placid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Plácido?
In the etymology graph, Placidus is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Plácido?
A machine transcription gives /plaθido/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Plácido a male or female name?
Plácido 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 Plácido have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Plácido, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placido.
Where is Plácido most common?
Plácido is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Plácido?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,567 people named Plácido, about 1 in 14 thousand 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, “Plácido”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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