Anacletus
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anacletus is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K◐
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- NGNigeria1 in 4.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈31 ●
- Sources
- 21 ●
- 1 in 691K ◐
across 3 countries
162 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 106 | 109 rec. | — | — | Anacletus | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | 25△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 691K | 25 | Anacletus | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | 16 | 22 rec. | — | — | Anacletus | 13 |
| AU Australia | 7 | 8 rec. | — | — | Anacletus | 7 |
| PL Poland | 5 | — | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Anacletus | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| VA Vatican City | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English16747%
- Swahili4513%
- Dutch308%
- Western Frisian267%
- 154%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 167 | 47% |
| Swahili | 45 | 13% |
| Dutch | 30 | 8% |
| Western Frisian | 26 | 7% |
| 15 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Anacletusb. 25IT3rd pope and bishop of Rome from c. 79 to c. 92 AD
- Anacletus IIb. 1091ITantipope 1130 to 1138
- Anacleto Bendañab. 1790HNnot in their usual namepolitician (1790-1859)
- Anacleto Gilb. 1852ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian politician, judge and lawyer (1852-1939)
- Anacleto de Medeirosb. 1866BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian composer, conductor and instrumentalist (1866-1907)
- Anacleto González Floresb. 1888MXnot in their usual nameMexican Catholic martyr (1888-1927)
- Anacleto Angelinib. 1912CLnot in their usual nameItalian-born Chilean businessman (1912-2007)
- Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveirab. 1946PTnot in their usual namePortuguese priest (1946-2020)
- Anacleto Jiménezb. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish long-distance runner
- Anacleto Pascual Alegre QuintanillaESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #10,206 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #149 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #39 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anacletus?
- We estimate roughly 31 people bear Anacletus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anacletus have the most bearers?
- Anacletus is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled anacletus.
- Where is Anacletus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anacletus is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 691 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Anacletus a male or female name?
- Anacletus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Anacletus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anacletus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.