Given name · also Latin
Spartaco
Spartaco is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Italian.
Original LatinSpartacus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Spartaco comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Spartaco developed from SPARTACUS. In Italian usage, Spartaco developed from Σπάρτακος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Spartaco through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 7 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 1919. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Spartaco’s family of names
In Italian usage, Spartaco has a feminine form in Spartaca. In Italian usage, Spartaco developed from the Latin form SPARTACUS. In Italian usage, Spartaco developed from the Ancient Greek form Σπάρτακος.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Spartaco
- SpartacusThracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic102 BC–70 BC
- Spartaco LandiniItalian footballer (1944-2017)
- Spartaco BandinelliItalian boxer (1921–1997)
- Spartaco SchergatItalian military frogman (1920–1996)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Spartaco, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Alco
Alco is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latin.
>99% boys
Gaetano
“a man from Gaeta”
>99% boys
Silvio
“a woodland dweller”
>99% boys
Donato
“a gift from God”
>99% boys
Eleuterio
“liberator”
>99% boys
Horace
“the keeper of time”
>99% boys
Isadore
“a gift from the goddess Isis”
80% boys · 20% girls
Alpha
Alpha is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “the firstborn child; the first letter of the Greek alphabet.”
89% boys · 11% girls