Heraldo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: herald (messenger) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024
/eˈɾaldo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Heraldo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 5,366 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 16K
- UYUruguay1 in 27K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
5,366 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Heraldo
- Spanish:/eˈɾaldo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ɛɾaldu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)herald (messenger)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Heraldo 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 | — | 5,366 | 1 in 39K | 5.8K | Heraldo | 114 |
| AR Argentina | #847 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Heraldo | 57 |
| CL Chile | #638 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 2 | Heraldo | 45 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Heraldo | 34 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Heraldo | 20 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Heraldo | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 124 | 1 in 27K | 124 | — | 15 |
5,366 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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)Heraldo 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.
In English, Spanish form of Harold; ‘army ruler’
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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)- Heraldo Weissb. 1917ARArgentine tennis player
- Heraldo Bezerrab. 1946BRBrazilian footballer (1946–1977)
- Heraldo Muñozb. 1948CLChilean politician
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heraldo mean, and where does it come from?
- herald (messenger) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Heraldo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /eˈɾaldo/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɛɾaldu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Heraldo a male or female name?
- Heraldo is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay).
- Which countries have the most people named Heraldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Heraldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heraldo. After it come Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Heraldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,366 people named Heraldo in 2022, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Heraldo compared with other names?
- In Chile, Heraldo is the 638th most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Heraldo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heraldoThe 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, “Heraldo” — ranked 1091st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.