Given name
Gaudencio
Gaudencio is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Gaudencio isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1943. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gaudencio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 82
- 82 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,624 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.
Gaudencio’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Gaudencio has a conventional equivalent in the German form GAUDENZ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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 Gaudencio
- Gaudencio RosalesFilipino Catholic cardinalborn 1932
- Gaudencio Antoninopolitician, entrepreneur and manager (1909-1967)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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