Haroldo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haroldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germanic Hariwald: hari ‘army’ + wald/uald/uold ‘rule, power’; ‘ruler of the army’.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 19K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 41K
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
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,917 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic Hariwald: hari ‘army’ + wald/uald/uold ‘rule, power’; ‘ruler of the army’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haroldo 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 | #927 | 10,917 | 1 in 19K | 12K | Haroldo | 144 |
| GT Guatemala | #148 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Haroldo | 42 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 2 | Haroldo | 40 |
| US United States | — | 468 | 1 in 711K | 466 | Haroldo | 102 |
| CL Chile | #774 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 1 | Haroldo | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | #548 | 172 | 1 in 20K | 172 | Haroldo | 15 |
10,917 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); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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)
Haroldo 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.
Poderoso jefe militar
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Haroldo Dominguesb. 1897BRBrazilian association football player
- Haroldo Lobob. 1910BRBrazilian composer
- Haroldo Contib. 1925ARArgentine writer (1925–1976)
- Haroldo de Camposb. 1929BRBrazilian poet and artist, part of Noigandres (1929–2003)
- Haroldo Costab. 1930BRBrazilian actor
- Haroldob. 1931BRBrazilian association football player (1931-2010)
- Haroldo Limab. 1939BRBrazilian politician
- Enrique Gorriarán Merlob. 1941ARnot in their usual nameArgentine guerilla leader
- Haroldo Rodasb. 1946GTGuatemalan politician (1946-2020)
- Kevin Cordónb. 1986GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan badminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 513 | #16,725 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Haroldo mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic Hariwald: hari ‘army’ + wald/uald/uold ‘rule, power’; ‘ruler of the army’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Haroldo a male or female name?
- Haroldo 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 Haroldo?
- In the etymology graph, Harold, Harry and Harald are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Haroldo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Haroldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haroldo.
- How common is the name Haroldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,917 people named Haroldo in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Haroldo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Haroldo is the 927th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haroldoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Haroldo” — the 927th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.