Given name & surname
Baldomero
“bold”
Baldomero is a masculine given name from Medieval Latin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Spanish, Tagalog, and Galician.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Baldomero goes back to Proto-Germanic *balþaz, meaning “bold.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
The story
The name’s historical associations include a 7th-century saint from Lyons, patron of locksmiths.
Baldomero through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,079
- 1,079 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,271 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,271 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,823 as a first name in 2020; 267 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Baldomero’s family of names
Baldomero shares a linguistic root with Baldomar. In Spanish usage, Baldomero has a conventional equivalent in the English form Vladimir. Baldomero has a related form in Baldemar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Baldomero
- Baldomero PerlazaColombian association football playerborn 1992
- Baldomero LilloChilean writer1867–1923
- Baldomero Sanín Cano(1861-1957) Colombian writer
- MereSpanish association football playerborn 1975
- Baldomero Fernández LadredaSpanish politician1906–1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
Similar names
If you love Baldomero, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Roch
“a glorious woman”
>99% boys
Santigo
“refers to Saint James”
>99% boys
Otmar
“treasure” · “famous”
>99% boys
Spiro
“one who transports goods; a basket”
>99% boys
Nicholaus
“of the victorious people”
>99% boys
Spiridon
“one who transports goods; a basket”
>99% boys
Spiros
“one who transports goods; a basket”
>99% boys
Rocco
“one who is calm; restful”
>99% boys