Prudencio

given name · Latin script

Meaning: From Late Latin Pradentius ‘prudent’

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

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 7.4K
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 22K

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)

≈17,000 people, est.

Sources
140 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Late Latin Pradentius ‘prudent’. Purificaci6n 2 Marian name, bestowed in honour of the feast of the Purification, in which the infant Jesus was’presented to God at the temple and his mother was purged of the uncleanliness associated with childbirth. R

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prudencio 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 Prudencio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6.5KlistedPrudencio37
PE Peru#889≈4,300 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Prudencio47
ES Spain—2,1951 in 23K2.4KPrudencio80
AR Argentina—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 28K377Prudencio33
US United States—1,1961 in 278K1.8KPrudencio140
HN Honduras#775≈620 est.≈1 in 15K—Prudencio9
SV El Salvador—≈290 est.≈1 in 22K—Prudencio26

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Prudêncio, Prudenció

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States, Philippines

    Also written Prudêncio, Prudenciô

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Prudêncio

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Prudêncio

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Spain, Peru, United States

    Also written Prudêncio

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Prudêncio

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Prudêncio

46 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)

1400160018002000Prudencio de Sandoval, b. 1551José Prudencio Padilla, b. 1784Prudencio Alfaro, b. 1861Prudencio de Pena, b. 1913Pruden, b. 1916Prudencio Cardona, b. 1951Prudencio Norales, b. 1956Prudencio Indurain, b. 1968

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Prudencio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,331
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#15,806
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,264
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—864#5,040
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—864#5,038
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—377—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Prudencio mean, and where does it come from?
From Late Latin Pradentius ‘prudent’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Prudencio a male or female name?
Prudencio 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 Prudencio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Prudencio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prudencio.
How common is the name Prudencio?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,195 people named Prudencio, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Prudencio compared with other names?
In Honduras, Prudencio is the 775th most common given name of 23,588 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, “Prudencio” — the 775th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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