Given name & surname
Fulgencio
“a shining man”
Fulgencio is a variant of Fulgentius. One Latin interpretation is “a shining man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fulgencio is a variant of Fulgentius. One Latin interpretation is “a shining man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
The name’s historical associations include a 7th-century Spanish saint, brother of Isidore of Seville.
Fulgencio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 765 as a first name in 2020; 1,110 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.
Fulgencio’s family of names
Fulgencio has a related form in Fulgentius.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Fulgencio
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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