Given name
Telesforo
Telesforo is a given name from Latin. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
From Latin Telesphorus, from Ancient Greek Τελεσφόρος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Telesforo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 251
- 251 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1933
- 10 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 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 912 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Telesforo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Telesforo has a feminine form in TELESFORA. In Spanish usage, Telesforo has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form TELESFOR. Telesforo shares a linguistic root with Télésphore.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Telesforo
- Telesforo MonzónBasque writer, politician and nationalist leader (1904-1981)
- Telesforo AranzadiSpanish anthropologist (1860-1945)
- Telesforo de Trueba y CosíoSpanish writer1799–1835
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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