Confesor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: confessor (one who confesses faith in Christianity)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/konfeˈsoɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Confesor is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cuba than in any other country.
- CUCuba≈1 in 9.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 12K
- PEPeru≈1 in 65K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cuba (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)confessor (one who confesses faith in Christianity)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Confesor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU Cuba | #242 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Confesor | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #264 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Confesor | 18 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Confesor | 24 |
| US United States | — | 385 | 1 in 864K | 382 | Confesor | 45 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #267 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Confesor | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | Confesor | 7 |
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; INE Uruguay — Nombres 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)Confesor 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.
In Romanian, CONFESÓR, confesori, s. m. Preot care spovedește; duhovnic.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Tomas Confesorb. 1891PHFilipino politician (1891-1951)
- Patricio Confesorb. 1900PHFilipino 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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Confesor a male or female name?
- Confesor is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Confesor mean, and where does it come from?
- confessor (one who confesses faith in Christianity) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Confesor?
- In Spanish /konfeˈsoɾ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Confesor?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Confesor in Cuba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled confesor. After it come Dominican Republic, Peru, United States and Puerto Rico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Confesor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 385 people named Confesor in 2020, about 1 in 864 thousand residents.
- How common is Confesor compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Confesor is the 242nd most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/confesorThe 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, “Confesor” — the 242nd most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.