Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Primitivo
“a primitive man”
Primitivo is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “a primitive man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “a primitive man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Primitivo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 742
- 742 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 20 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 7 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,007 as a first name in 2020; 114 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.
Primitivo’s family of names
See also 1
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