Cicero
loc · Latin script
Meaning: The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cicero is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 90th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 974(measured from records)
- GWGuinea-Bissau≈1 in 13K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 97K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 974 (inferred from the name graph)
217,260 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cícero in BR Brazil, US United States, AO Angola and 2 more.
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)
The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cicero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 217,260 | 1 in 974 | 249K | Cícero | 168 |
| US United States | — | 495 | 1 in 672K | 3.4K | Cícero | 112 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Cícero | 8 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #90 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Cícero | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 513K | listed | — | 52 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | Cícero | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 22 | 1 in 154K | 58 | — | 13 |
217,260 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling cicero. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register. 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)
Cicero is also recorded in 5 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 nome lat. Cicero, relacionado a cicer, 'grão-de-bico, verruga'.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
he who plants peas; Aleppo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Roman orator & statesman; town, IL
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Latin name; Roman statesman and orator.
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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)
- Cícero Romão Batistab. 1844BRBrazilian saint (1844-1934)
- Bill Hillb. 1874USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1874-1938)
- Nando Cicerob. 1931ITItalian actor and film director (1931–1995)
- Eugen Cicerob. 1940RORomanian-German jazz pianist
- Antônio Cícerob. 1945BRBrazilian writer and poet
- Roger Cicerob. 1970DEGerman pop and jazz singer (1970-2016)
- Cícero Moraesb. 1982BRBrazilian 3D designer and forensic reconstruction specialist
- Cicero Santosb. 1984BRBrazilian association football player
- Cícero Semedob. 1986PTPortuguese/Guinea-Bissauan footballer
- Cicero Salmon IIIb. 2000USAmerican actor
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 47 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 249K | #207 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 248K | #62 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 217K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 216K | #148 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 216K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 210K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 198K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 177K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 136K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 83K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 53K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.6K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Cicero mean, and where does it come from?
- The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicerō (106–43 BC). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cicero have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 217 thousand people named Cicero, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cícero.
- Where is Cicero most common?
- Cicero is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 974 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cicero?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 217,260 people named Cicero in 2022, about 1 in 974 residents.
- How common is Cicero compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Cicero is the 90th most common given name of 117 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/ciceroThe 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, “Cicero” — the 90th most common given name in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.