Erasmo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Erasmus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɾasmo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erasmo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4K
- VEVenezuela1 in 4.5K
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
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
15,324 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish/Italian form of Greek Erasmus, 'beloved'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Erasmo is read(measured from records)
Erasmo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish68%
Erasmus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Del griego Erásmios, 'amable, amado, deseable', de eráō 'amar, desear'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese12%
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Erasmus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
Spanish/Italian form of Greek Erasmus, 'beloved'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Erasmo 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 | — | 15,324 | 1 in 14K | 19K | Erasmo | 123 |
| PE Peru | #603 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Erasmo | 49 |
| US United States | — | 6,503 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Erasmo | 265 |
| VE Venezuela | #500 | 6,329 | 1 in 4.5K | 6.3K | Erasmo | 41 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 11 | Erasmo | 91 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #268 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Erasmo | 23 |
| NI Nicaragua | #208 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Erasmo | 18 |
| HN Honduras | #279 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Erasmo | 19 |
15,324 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Erasmo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal greco erasmios, 'amabile'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Dal greco crasmios = amabile. Forme popolari venete Rasemo, Risnio. Sspole- .ano Ermo, Elmo (5. Elmo). Cogn. Résimi, Resimini. Raselnini, Rassemini, Ro- ,mini.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
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)
- Erasmo of Narnib. 1370ITItalian mercenary (1370–1443)
- Erasmo Bartolib. 1606ITItalian composer
- Érasme-Louis Surlet de Chokierb. 1769BEnot in their usual nameBelgian politician (1769-1839)
- Erasmo Recamib. 1939ITItalian physicist (1939–2021)
- Erasmo Carlosb. 1941BRBrazilian singer (1941–2022)
- Erasmo Salemmeb. 1946ITItalian volleyball player
- Erasmo Ramirezb. 1976USAmerican baseball player
- Erasmo Palazzottob. 1982ITItalian politician
- Arturo Vidalb. 1987CLnot in their usual nameChilean association football player
- Erasmo Genzinib. 1991ITItalian 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).
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 47 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,468 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 19K | #481 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 15K | #1,275 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 10K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.5K | #3,280 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 6.3K | #230 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 5.8K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Erasmo come from?
- Spanish/Italian form of Greek Erasmus, 'beloved' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Erasmo?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾasmo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Erasmo mean?
- In Spanish, Erasmus
- Is Erasmo a male or female name?
- Erasmo 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.
- What are other forms of the name Erasmo?
- In the etymology graph, Elmo, Rasmus and Ermo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Erasmo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Erasmo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erasmo.
- How common is the name Erasmo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,324 people named Erasmo in 2022, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Erasmo compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Erasmo is the 208th most common given name of 16,569 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/erasmoThe 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, “Erasmo” — the 208th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.