Fulgencio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Latin name Fulgentius, a derivative of fulgens ‘shining’
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Spain (INE): listed as male
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries
/fulˈxensjo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Fulgencio is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 14K
- PEPeru≈1 in 15K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Latin name Fulgentius, a derivative of fulgens ‘shining’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fulgencio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 63 | Fulgencio | 69 |
| ES Spain | #852 | 3,508 | 1 in 14K | 3.8K | Fulgencio | 106 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 10 | Fulgencio | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Fulgencio | 29 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,621 | 1 in 18K | 1.6K | Fulgencio | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | #607 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Fulgencio | 13 |
| NI Nicaragua | #624 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Fulgencio | 5 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); This content discusses Filipino names given to children born on New Year's and was published by Philstar.com, which host. 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)Fulgencio 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.
El que brilla y resplandece por su bondad
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Spanish: from the Latin name Fulgentius , a derivative of fulgens (genitive fulgentis ) shining. The name was borne by a 7th-century Spanish saint, brother of Isidore of Seville.
as a word
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)- Fulgencio Yegrosb. 1780PYConsul of Paraguay
- Fulgencio Batistab. 1901CUPresident of Cuba, 1940–1944; dictator, 1952-1959 (1901-1973)
- Fulgencio Hernándezb. 1941GTGuatemalan athletics competitor
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fulgencio mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin name Fulgentius, a derivative of fulgens ‘shining’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Fulgencio?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /fulˈxensjo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /fulɡẽsju/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Fulgencio?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Fulgencio in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fulgencio. After it come Spain, Philippines, Peru and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Fulgencio a male or female name?
- Fulgencio is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Spain (INE): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Fulgencio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,508 people named Fulgencio, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Fulgencio compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Fulgencio is the 607th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fulgencioThe 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, “Fulgencio” — the 607th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.