Herculano

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Herculaneum

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/exkulɐnu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Herculano is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 60K
  • BRBrazil1 in 79K

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.

Angola (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Herculaneum

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Herculano 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.

Where Herculano is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AO Angola#383≈2,900 est.≈1 in 11K—Herculano23
BR Brazil—2,6821 in 79K3.2KHerculano107
PH Philippines—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 59KlistedHerculano13
PT Portugal#922≈660 est.≈1 in 16KlistedHerculano58
PE Peru—≈530 est.≈1 in 60K—Herculano19
PY Paraguay—≈180 est.≈1 in 40K—Herculano6

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Herculano is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hércuļanó, Hérculàno, Hércùlàno, Hërcūlãnō, Hércûlano

  • French given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Morocco

    Also written Hérculano, Hérculàno, Hércùlàno, Hèrculàno, Hèrçulàno

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hérculano

  • Arabic surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco

    Also written Hérculàno, Hércùlàno, Herculàno, Hérculano, Herculanô

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Herculanó

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Herculano 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 Spanish, latín Herculaneus, 'perteneciente a Hércules'

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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)

18001850190019502000Herculano Ferreira Pena, b. 1800Alexandre Herculano, b. 1810Olegário Herculano de Aquino e Castro, b. 1828Herculano Pita Soares, b. 1900Herculano Pires, b. 1914Herculano Alves, b. 1940Herculano Moraes, b. 1945Herculano Marcos Ferraz de Alvarenga, b. 1947Herculano Pombo, b. 1955Herculano Passos, b. 1956

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)

InformalOlá Herculano,Hi Herculano, (English)

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)

Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Herculano
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22K#752

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 Herculano mean, and where does it come from?
Herculaneum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Herculano?
A machine transcription gives /exkulɐnu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
Is Herculano a male or female name?
Herculano 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 Herculano have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Herculano in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herculano.
How common is the name Herculano?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,682 people named Herculano in 2022, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
How common is Herculano compared with other names?
In Angola, Herculano is the 383rd most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.

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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, “Herculano” — the 383rd most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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