Anacleto
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anacleto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as ‘Invoked’, a deriv. of anakalein to call on) supposedly borne by the third pope, also known as Anenkletos ‘Irre¬ proachable’.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 14K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 22K
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)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Invoked’, a deriv. of anakalein to call on) supposedly borne by the third pope, also known as Anenkletos ‘Irre¬ proachable’.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anacleto is read(measured from records)
Anacleto is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish47%
griego Anáklētos, ‘llamado en voz alta, invocado’; también ‘resucitado’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese36%
‘Invoked’, a deriv. of anakalein to call on) supposedly borne by the third pope, also known as Anenkletos ‘Irre¬ proachable’.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anacleto in English.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Anacleto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Anacleto | 36 |
| AO Angola | #367 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Anacleto | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,966 | 1 in 71K | 4.2K | Anacleto | 115 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Anacleto | 31 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 90 | Anacleto | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Anacleto | 11 |
| HN Honduras | #764 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Anacleto | 5 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Anacleto 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 Italian, dal greco anáklētos, 'invocato, chiamato'; nome diffuso soprattutto come quello di un papa martire.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma ital. de Anacletus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
From Greek Anaklétos ‘invoked’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Colui che è chiamato
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)
- Anacletusb. 25ITnot in their usual name3rd pope and bishop of Rome from c. 79 to c. 92 AD
- Anacletus IIb. 1091ITnot in their usual nameantipope 1130 to 1138
- Anacleto Bendañab. 1790HNpolitician (1790-1859)
- Anacleto Gilb. 1852ARArgentinian politician, judge and lawyer (1852-1939)
- Anacleto de Medeirosb. 1866BRBrazilian composer, conductor and instrumentalist (1866-1907)
- Anacleto González Floresb. 1888MXMexican Catholic martyr (1888-1927)
- Anacleto Angelinib. 1912CLItalian-born Chilean businessman (1912-2007)
- Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveirab. 1946PTPortuguese priest (1946-2020)
- Anacleto Jiménezb. 1967ESSpanish long-distance runner
- Anacleto Pascual Alegre QuintanillaESSpanish 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26K | #673 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 90 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Anacleto mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Invoked’, a deriv. of anakalein to call on) supposedly borne by the third pope, also known as Anenkletos ‘Irre¬ proachable’. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- Is Anacleto a male or female name?
- Anacleto 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 Anacleto?
- In the etymology graph, Cletus, Cletis and Anacletus are forms of the same name in other languages; Cleto is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Anacleto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Anacleto in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anacleto.
- How common is the name Anacleto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,966 people named Anacleto in 2022, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Anacleto compared with other names?
- In Angola, Anacleto is the 367th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anacleto?
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anacletoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Anacleto” — the 367th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.