Venceslao
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Wenceslaus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/benθeslao/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Venceslao is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 910K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.2M
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 910K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Wenceslaus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venceslao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | 72 | Venceslao | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | Venceslao | 4 |
| AR Argentina | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 2 | Venceslao | 15 |
| PH Philippines | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Venceslao | 2 |
| PE Peru | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Venceslao | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 910K | — | Venceslao | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Venceslao | 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: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Venceslao is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Del checo *Veceslav: 'más' + 'gloria'; '(el) más glorioso'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Colui che ha maggiore gloria
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian form of WENCESLAS , occasionally borne in honour of the Bohemian saint. Cognates: Spanish: Venceslás. Portuguese: Venceslau .
as a word
In Russian, var of Ventseslav.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Esperanto, a male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Wenceslaus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Wenzel I.b. 1337CZnot in their usual nameCzech Duke of Luxembourg (1337-1383)
- Wenceslaus I, Duke of Cieszynb. 1413PLnot in their usual nameDuke of Teschen
- Wenceslao Achávalb. 1814ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian bishop (1814-1898)
- Venceslao Fumib. 1826ITItalian composer and violinist
- Venceslao Persichinib. 1827ITItalian composer
- Venceslao Spallettib. 1837ITItalian politician (1837-1899)
- Venceslao Amicib. 1869ITItalian politician (1869-1948)
- Venceslao Borzanib. 1873ITItalian architect (1873-1926)
- Venceslao CocchiItalian priest
- Venceslao LazzariIT( - 1615)
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)
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1947 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1947 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1939 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1939 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1958 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1958 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1957 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1957 | 2 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #24,031 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1959 | 1 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1944 | 1 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1943 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Venceslao mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Wenceslaus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Venceslao?
- A machine transcription gives /benθeslao/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Venceslao a male or female name?
- Venceslao 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 Venceslao?
- In the etymology graph, Vyacheslav, Slava and Václav are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Venceslao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people named Venceslao in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venceslao.
- How common is the name Venceslao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people in Brazil have Venceslao as their first given name, about 1 in 4.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Venceslao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venceslaoThe 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, “Venceslao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.