Candido
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Vars.: Caunt (chiefly E Midlands); Chant; C(h)anter, Cantor (see also Kantor) . Dims.: Canty, Cantie (Scotland)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Candido is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K
- BRBrazil1 in 23K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Vars.: Caunt (chiefly E Midlands); Chant; C(h)anter, Cantor (see also Kantor) . Dims.: Canty, Cantie (Scotland). A family by the name of Cant, who held land at Masterton, near Dunfermline, are descended from Flemish cloth merchants of the igth cent. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant [ij24-1804) was the grandson of a Scots immigrant to Konigsberg, where he lived all his life.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Candido is read(measured from records)
Candido 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.
- Portuguese56%
Vars.: Caunt (chiefly E Midlands); Chant; C(h)anter, Cantor (see also Kantor) . Dims.: Canty, Cantie (Scotland). A family by the name of Cant, who held land at Masterton, near Dunfermline, are descended from Flemish cloth merchants of the igth cent. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant [ij24-1804) was the grandson of a Scots immigrant to Konigsberg, where he lived all his life.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- Spanish32%
misspelling of cándido
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Candido 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)
Candido 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 | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Candido | 42 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,184 | 1 in 5.4K | 10K | Candido | 62 |
| BR Brazil | #233 | 9,026 | 1 in 23K | 13K | Candido | 178 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,831 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Candido | 188 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,263 | 1 in 6.7K | 4.3K | — | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Candido | 9 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Candido | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 596 | 1 in 5.7K | 940 | — | — |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Candido 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, do lat. candidus; patronímico que recorda o nome do fundador do tronco familiar
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, dal latino candidus, 'bianco, splendente'; nome cristiano.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, dal lat. candidus, ‘bianco, puro’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Cándido Lópezb. 1840ARArgentine artist (1840-1902)
- Cândido Rondonb. 1865BRBrazilian explorer and officer (1865–1958)
- José Alejandrinob. 1870PHnot in their usual nameFilipino general and senator (1870–1951)
- Cândido de Oliveirab. 1896PTfootballer (1896-1958)
- Candido Portinarib. 1903BRBrazilian painter (1903–1962)
- Candido Amantinib. 1914ITItalian Roman Catholic religious, priest, theologian and exorcist (1914-1992)
- Cándido Camerob. 1921CUCuban percussionist (1921-2020)
- Cándido Muatetema Rivasb. 1960GQPrime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (1960-2014)
- Cândido Barbosab. 1974PTPortuguese cyclist
- Cándido Ramírezb. 1993MXMexican footballer
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 63 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,512 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 940 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 456 | #8,641 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 456 | #8,628 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Candido mean, and where does it come from?
- Vars.: Caunt (chiefly E Midlands); Chant; C(h)anter, Cantor (see also Kantor) . Dims.: Canty, Cantie (Scotland). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- Is Candido a male or female name?
- Candido 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 Candido have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Candido in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candido.
- How common is the name Candido?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,184 people named Candido, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Candido compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Candido is the 233rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/candidoThe 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, “Candido” — the 233rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.