Facundo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Facundus; “eloquent, fluent in speech,” from fari, “to speak”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fakundo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Facundo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 37th most common given name.
- UYUruguay1 in 163(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 362
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.5K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Facundus; “eloquent, fluent in speech,” from fari, “to speak”.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Facundo 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.
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); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Facundo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, eloquent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do lat. facundus, eloquente
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Inteligente
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fācundus
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)
- Facundo Cabralb. 1937ARArgentine singer and songwriter (1937–2011)
- Facundo Parrab. 1985ARArgentinian footballer (born 1985)
- Facundo Roncagliab. 1987ARArgentine footballer
- Facundo Ferreyrab. 1991ARArgentinian association football player
- Facundo Campazzob. 1991ARArgentine basketball player (born 1991)
- Facundo Medinab. 1999ARArgentinian association football player
- Facundo Torresb. 2000UYUruguayan association football player
- Facundo Pellistrib. 2001UYUruguayan association football player
- Facundo Gonzálezb. 2003UYUruguayan footballer
- Facundo Buonanotteb. 2004ARArgentine association football player (born 2004)
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)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 21K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 4.8K | #68 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 4K | #82 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 780 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 780 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 655 | #223 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 253 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Facundo mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Facundus; “eloquent, fluent in speech,” from fari, “to speak”. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Facundo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 126 thousand people named Facundo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled facundo.
- Where is Facundo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Facundo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 163 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Facundo?
- A machine transcription gives /fakundo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Facundo a male or female name?
- Facundo 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.
- What are other forms of the name Facundo?
- In the etymology graph, Facunda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Facundo?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 20,743 people named Facundo, about 1 in 163 residents.
- How common is Facundo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Facundo is the 129th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/facundoThe 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, “Facundo” — the 129th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.