Custodia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: custody
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuʃtuðiɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Custodia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 57K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 21K
- ESSpain1 in 38K
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
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
3,707 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Custódia in AO Angola.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
custody
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Custodia 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.
3,707 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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)
Custodia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pyx (container for the host)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, protection, safekeeping
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, care
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Custodia Moreno Riverob. 1943ESSpanish nurse and activist
- Custodia García-JiménezESSpanish researcher
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.3K | #3,248 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5.3K | #1,435 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.7K | #3,373 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #1,131 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #2,375 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 1K | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Custodia mean, and where does it come from?
- custody Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Custodia?
- A machine transcription gives /kuʃtuðiɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Custodia a male or female name?
- Custodia is a female 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 Custodia?
- In the etymology graph, Latoya is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Custodia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Custodia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled custodia.
- How common is the name Custodia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,707 people named Custodia in 2022, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Custodia compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Custodia is the 923rd most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Custodia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/custodiaThe 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, “Custodia” — the 923rd most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.