Placencio
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/plaθenθjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Placencio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 44K
- CLChile≈1 in 55K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Placencio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #375 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Placencio | 21 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Placencio | 14 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Placencio | 2 |
| US United States | — | 372 | 1 in 894K | 617 | Placencio | 87 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Placencio | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | 2 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Claudia Placenciob. 1950CLChilean 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 617 | #38,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 372 | #55,255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 348 | #55,237 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Placencio?
- A machine transcription gives /plaθenθjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Placencio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Placencio in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placencio.
- How common is the name Placencio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 372 people named Placencio in 2010, about 1 in 894 thousand residents.
- How common is Placencio compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Placencio is the 375th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Placencio?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/placencioThe 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, “Placencio” — the 375th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.