Given name & surname

Policarpio

Policarpio is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English and Tagalog.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Policarpio comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Policarpio.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Policarpio through the years

Babies since 1880
28
28 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1944
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Policarpio in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1913–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1960. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1944. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 318 as a first name in 2020; 637 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.

Policarpio’s family of names

In Filipino usage, Policarpio as a surname has a related form in POLICARPO.

Walk Policarpio’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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