Juvenal

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from Latin Iuvenalis; first attested Juvenal 1203 Cur (North Riding of Yorkshire)

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 4.6K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 6.5K

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)

22,130 people, 2022

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Latin Iuvenalis; first attested Juvenal 1203 Cur (North Riding of Yorkshire)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Juvenal is read(measured from records)

Juvenal is one spelling over 3 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.

  • Spanish52%

    Latín Iuuenālis, 'juvenil; apto para jóvenes'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Portuguese36%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Juvenal in Portuguese.

  • English7.4%

    from Latin Iuvenalis; first attested Juvenal 1203 Cur (North Riding of Yorkshire)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Roman goddess of youth

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Juventas [luventas]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Roman satirist

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Juvenal 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 Juvenal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#59522,1301 in 9.6K30KJuvenal108
PE Peru#685≈6,900 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Juvenal51
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈5,100 est.≈1 in 20K2Juvenal2
VE Venezuela#5814,4071 in 6.5K4.4KJuvenal35
US United States—3,7511 in 89K3.7KJuvenal172
BO Bolivia#106≈3,300 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Juvenal22
CL Chile#504≈1,400 est.≈1 in 13K1Juvenal52

22,130 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

Juvenal is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Juvenalis, Juvénal

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Belgium

    Also written Juvénal

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Juvenál, Juvénal

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tanzania, Congo - Kinshasa, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Juvénal

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Juvenalis

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Also written Juvénal

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ювенал, Жувенал, Yuvenal, Juvénal

43 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Juvenal of Jerusalem, b. 350Juvenal Amarijo, b. 1923Juvénal Habyarimana, b. 1937Naná Vasconcelos, b. 1944François de Mazières, b. 1960Juvenal Olmos, b. 1962Juvenal Marizamunda, b. 1965Juvenal Edjogo, b. 1979Juvenal Gomes da Silva, b. 1979Alban Ivanov, b. 1984

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)

InformalHola Juvenal,Hi Juvenal, (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 51 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Juvenal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—30K#1,104
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—30K#352
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202222K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202022K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22K#996
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201022K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200022K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199021K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198018K—
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—4.4K#294
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.7K#4,812
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—94#23,225

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Juvenal mean, and where does it come from?
from Latin Iuvenalis; first attested Juvenal 1203 Cur (North Riding of Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Juvenal?
A machine transcription gives /xuβenal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Juvenal a male or female name?
Juvenal 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 Juvenal have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Juvenal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juvenal.
How common is the name Juvenal?
In Brazil, the national register counted 22,130 people named Juvenal in 2022, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
How common is Juvenal compared with other names?
In Brazil, Juvenal is the 595th most common given name of 474,894 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, “Juvenal” — the 595th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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