Heraldo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: herald (messenger)
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
/eɾaldo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heraldo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 19K
- BRBrazil1 in 39K
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)
- 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
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 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2 | Heraldo | 45 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Heraldo | 20 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Heraldo | 34 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | 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 Barbuyb. 1913BRBrazilian journalist, historian, sociologist, philosopher and writer
- Heraldo Weissb. 1917ARArgentine tennis player
- Heraldo M. Polettib. 1926UYUruguayan writer
- Heraldo do Monteb. 1935BRBrazilian musician
- Heraldo Bezerrab. 1946BRBrazilian footballer (1946–1977)
- Heraldo Muñozb. 1948CLChilean politician
- Heraldo Romero Sánchezb. 1948COColombian lawyer (1948-1980)
- Heraldo Pereirab. 1961BRBrazilian journalist
- Heraldo Noronha Rodriguesb. 1970BRBrazilian politician
- Heraldo ViazziUYUruguayan judoka
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.8K | #3,040 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5.8K | #1,091 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,611 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Heraldo mean, and where does it come from?
- herald (messenger) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Heraldo?
- A machine transcription gives /eɾaldo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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).
- In which country does Heraldo have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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” — the 638th most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.