Given name & surname
Epifanio
“one who brings light”
Epifanio is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “one who brings light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who brings light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Epifanio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,997
- 1,997 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,065 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,065 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 44 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,316 as a first name in 2020; 272 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.
Epifanio’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Epifanio has a diminutive in PANYONG. In Esperanto usage, Epifanio has a conventional equivalent in the English form Epiphany. Epifanio has a related form in Epiphany.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Epifanio has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 18
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Epifanio
- Epifanio de los SantosPhilippine historial and journalist1871–1928
- Epi FernándezSpanish footballer (1919–1977)
- Epiphanius the WiseRussian saint1350–1420
- Epifanio Gonzálezfootball refereeborn 1958
- Epifanio Méndez FleitasParaguayan musician, writer and poet (1917-1985)
- Epiphanius the MonkEastern Orthodox monk (9th century)790–840
- Epifanio GarcíaArgentinian association football playerborn 1992
- Epiphanius of Petraancient Greek rhetorician
- Epifanio BenítezParaguayan footballerborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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