Given name & surname
Perfecto
“one who is flawless”
Perfecto is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “one who is flawless.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who is flawless.”
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 1906. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Perfecto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 876
- 876 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 19 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 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,858 as a first name in 2020; 656 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.
Perfecto’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Perfecto has a diminutive in PEKTO. Perfecto has a related form in Perfecte. In Cebuano usage, Perfecto has a related form in PEKTO.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Perfecto
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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