Alceste
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Greek Alkēstis/Alcestis, associated with strength and valor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alseʃt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alceste is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- ITItaly
- ESSpain
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Alkēstis/Alcestis, associated with strength and valor.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
How Alceste is read(measured from records)
Alceste is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alceste in Portuguese.
- Spanish30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alceste in Spanish.
- English18%
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as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French7.2%
From Greek Alkēstis/Alcestis, associated with strength and valor.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Origine grecque, « force active ». Nom mythologique grec repris par Molière.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Nom de la mythologie grecque; associée à la fille de Pélias, sauvée des enfers par Héraclès.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Italian6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alceste in Italian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
- ESSpain
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Alceste is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Coraggiosa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Alceste de Chapuys de Montlavilleb. 1800FRFrench politician (1800–1868)
- Alceste De Lollisb. 1820ITItalian writer
- Alceste Cœuriotb. 1823FRFrench musician
- Alceste Camprianib. 1848ITItalian painter and caricaturist (1848-1933)
- Alceste Borellab. 1862ITItalian publisher and entrepreneur
- Alceste Arcangelib. 1880ITItalian zoologist and biologist (1880–1965)
- Alceste Farescourb. 1925FRcyclist
- Alceste Santinib. 1927ITItalian journalist (1927-2010)
- Alceste Catellab. 1942ITItalian priest
- Alceste Madeirab. 1944BRBrazilian 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).
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 83 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 83 | #20,991 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65 | #47,007 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 51 | #47,873 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 36 | #42,259 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 20 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 2 | #3,062 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1966 | 1 | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
| PT Portugal | Um Nome Para o Bebê (Barbosa, 1990) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Alceste mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Alkēstis/Alcestis, associated with strength and valor. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Alceste?
- A machine transcription gives /alseʃt/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Alceste a male or female name?
- Alceste 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 Alceste have the most bearers?
- Alceste is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Alceste?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alcesteThe 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, “Alceste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.