Tancredo
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic, ‘thought counsel’ (A concise dictionary of first names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Tancredo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanic, ‘thought counsel’. Teodoro $ From Greek. See }Theodore in main dictionary. Feminine form: Teodora. 280 Teodosio $ From Greek Theodosios ‘god giving’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tancredo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1.5K | Tancredo | 84 |
| GY Guyana | — | 36 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | — | — |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Tancredo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Germanic; thoughtful counsel
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Italian: of Germanic origin, composed of the elements thank thought + r d counsel. The name has become known in Italy through Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1581), in which a prominent part is played by Tancred, hero of the First Crusade (1199).
as a word
In Spanish, Germánico Thancharat: thanc ‘pensamiento’ + rat ‘consejo’; ‘el consejero que medita’
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)- Tancredo Nevesb. 1910BRBrazilian politician (1910-1985)
- Tom Tancredob. 1945USAmerican politician
- Tancredo Buffb. 2000USPuerto Rican pornographic actor
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tancredo come from?
- Germanic, ‘thought counsel’. Teodoro $ From Greek. See }Theodore in main dictionary. Feminine form: Teodora. 280 Teodosio $ From Greek Theodosios ‘god giving’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Tancredo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Germanic, ‘thought counsel’.
- In which country does Tancredo have the most bearers?
- Tancredo is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled tancredo.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tancredoThe 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, “Tancredo” — ranked 2908th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.