Placido

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: past participle of placer

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 14K
  • ECEcuador1 in 14K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 people, est.

Sources
176 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.9K (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 the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Placido is read(measured from records)

Placido 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.

  • Spanish64%

    past participle of placer

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

  • Portuguese14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Placido in Portuguese.

  • English12%

    Peaceful, serene

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Placido 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 Placido is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈6,800 est.≈1 in 16KlistedPlacido38
ES Spain#8973,5671 in 14K3.9KPlacido86
PE Peru—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 12K—Placido36
AR Argentina#998≈2,700 est.≈1 in 17K160Placido35
BR Brazil—2,3211 in 91K3.3KPlacido87
EC Ecuador#8961,2011 in 14K1.2KPlacido17
BO Bolivia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Placido16
DO Dominican Republic#674≈890 est.≈1 in 12K—Placido21

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 — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry 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)

Placido is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Plácido

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Plácido

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Plácido

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, Tanzania

    Also written Plácido

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Japan, Spain

    Also written Plácido

  • Croatian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Plácido

59 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)

Placido is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, Dal latino placidus, 'mite, tranquillo'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Placidius

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • From Late Latin Placidus ‘untroubled’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

16001700180019002000Placido Puccinelli, b. 1609Placido Costanzi, b. 1702Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Count Panzutti, b. 1723Giacinto Placido Zurla, b. 1769Placido Maria Schiaffino, b. 1829Placido Gabrielli, b. 1832Giuseppe Placido Nicolini, b. 1877Placido Cortese, b. 1907Placido Rizzotto, b. 1914Salvatore Torrisi, b. 1957

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 Placido,Hi Placido, (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 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Placido
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—13K#1,116
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—160—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—149#20,646
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—149#20,594

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Where does the name Placido come from?
From the Late Latin name Placidus ‘untroubled’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
How do you pronounce Placido?
A machine transcription gives /plasido/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Placido mean?
In Spanish, past participle of placer
Is Placido a male or female name?
Placido 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.
What are other forms of the name Placido?
In the etymology graph, Placidus is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Placido have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Placido in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled placido.
How common is the name Placido?
In Spain, the national register counted 3,567 people named Placido, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Placido compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Placido is the 674th most common given name of 44,971 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, “Placido” — the 674th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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