Candelario

given name · Latin script

Meaning: the Purification of the Virgin, given perhaps to someone

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

Candelario is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 5.6K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 8.1K

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.

United States (measured from records)

3,981 people, 2020

Sources
239 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

the Purification of the Virgin, given perhaps to someone

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Candelario 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 Candelario is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,9811 in 84K5.2KCandelario239
VE Venezuela#7283,5541 in 8.1K3.6KCandelario18
PH Philippines—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 46K—Candelario50
PE Peru—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 15K—Candelario33
SV El Salvador#489≈1,300 est.≈1 in 5K—Candelario21
NI Nicaragua#291≈1,100 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Candelario6
DO Dominican Republic#505≈770 est.≈1 in 14K—Candelario38

3,981 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)

Candelario is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Candelarío, Çandelario

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Peru, Philippines

    Also written Čandelarió

49 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Candelario 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.

  • Encendido, brillante

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

1800185019001950Candelario Obeso, b. 1849Candelario Huízar, b. 1882Candelario Garcia, b. 1944

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 36 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Candelario
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.2K#6,271
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.1K#6,684
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.7K#8,166
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Candelario mean, and where does it come from?
the Purification of the Virgin, given perhaps to someone Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What are other forms of the name Candelario?
In the etymology graph, Cande is a recorded short or pet form.
How common is the name Candelario?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,981 people named Candelario in 2020, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
How common is Candelario compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Candelario is the 291st most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
Is Candelario a male or female name?
Candelario 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 Candelario have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Candelario, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candelario.

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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, “Candelario” — the 291st most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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