Given name
Alcides
Alcides is a masculine given name from Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1954. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alcides through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 534
- 534 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,743 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +2%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,743 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 2.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,862 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alcides’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alcides
- Alcides GhiggiaUruguayan footballer (1926-2015)
- AlcidesBrazilian footballerborn 1985
- Alcides ArguedasBolivian politician (1879-1946)
- Alcides SilveiraFootballer (1938-2011)
- Alcides EscobarVenezuelan professional baseball playerborn 1986
- Alcides PeñaBolivian footballerborn 1989
- Alcides Pinto de Melo JuniorBrazilian association football playerborn 1990
- CidinhoBrazilian association football playerborn 1993
- Alcides Mendoza CastroRoman Catholic archbishop (1928–2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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