Given name & surname
Nicasio
Nicasio is a surname. It is used in English and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Nicasio 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 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nicasio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 294
- 294 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,331 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −41%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,331 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 947 as a first name in 2020; 1,173 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.
Nicasio’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Nicasio has a diminutive in Asiong. Nicasio shares a linguistic root with Nicasi. In Cebuano usage, Nicasio has a related form in NECASIO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nicasio
- Nicasio Álvarez de CienfuegosSpanish poet (1764-1809)
- Nicasio OroñoArgentine politician and lawyer (1825-1904)
- Nicasio Landa y Álvarez de Carvallojurist from Spain (1831-1891)1830–1891
- Nicasio Álvarez de SotomayorSpanish trade unionist1899–1936
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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