Generoso
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: generous
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɛnɝoʊsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Generoso is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 20K
- AOAngola≈1 in 34K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
generous
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Generoso is read(measured from records)
Generoso is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Generoso in English.
- Spanish27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Generoso in Spanish.
- Portuguese24%
generous
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
generous (willing to give and share unsparingly)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian9.3%
do latim generosus, ‘generoso, magnânimo’
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Generoso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Generoso | 29 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 4 | Generoso | 23 |
| AO Angola | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Generoso | 13 |
| ES Spain | 562 | 1 in 89K | 619 | Generoso | 26 |
| US United States | 546 | 1 in 609K | 545 | Generoso | 94 |
| PA Panama | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 2 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Generoso 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.
GAUEl<O
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of generōsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of xeneroso
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)
- Generoso Frateb. 1857BRBrazilian painter (1857-1885)
- Generoso Galluccib. 1874ITItalian mathematician (1874-1942)
- Generoso Popeb. 1891ITNewspaper publisher
- Generoso Ponce Filhob. 1898BRBrazilian politician
- Jerry Grayb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican violinist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (1915-1976)
- Generoso Jiménezb. 1917CUCuban musician (1917-2007)
- Generoso Andriab. 1939ITItalian politician
- Generoso Pompab. 1952ITItalian painter
- Generoso Márquezb. 1952CUCuban basketball player
- Generoso Rossib. 1979ITItalian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 438 | #51,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 386 | #53,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 320 | #59,147 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 252 | #13,845 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 252 | #13,836 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Generoso mean, and where does it come from?
- generous Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Generoso?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɛnɝoʊsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Generoso a male or female name?
- Generoso 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.
- In which country does Generoso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Generoso in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled generoso.
- How common is the name Generoso?
- In Spain, the national register counted 562 people named Generoso, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/generosoThe 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, “Generoso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.