Anicetus
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anicetus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in English and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, his brother is Alexiares.
- PEPeru1 in 12K◐
- MXMexico1 in 15K
- PHPhilippines1 in 17K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.2K ●
- Sources
- 115 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 6 countries
104K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Aniceto in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 13 more.
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●
One of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, his brother is Alexiares. Along with their father, Anicetus and Alexiares are the guardians and gatekeepers of the gates of Mount Olympus.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 23,593 | 20K rec. | — | 238 | Aniceto | 37 |
| MX Mexico | #980 | 20,646 | 26K rec. | — | 58 | Aniceto | 84 |
| PE Peru | — | 19,051 | 24K rec. | — | — | Aniceto | 38 |
| PH Philippines | — | 9,974 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Aniceto | 44 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 4,964 | 2.7K rec. | — | 1.1K | Aniceto | 20 |
| CL Chile | — | 2,526 | 91 rec. | — | 1 | Aniceto | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,896 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 26K | 2.1K | Aniceto | 74 |
| US United States | — | 1,327 | 7.5K rec. | 1 in 251K | 1.3K | Aniceto | 115 |
| UY Uruguay | #582 | 1,037 | 933 rec. | — | 1 | Aniceto | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 877 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 241K | 1.3K | Aniceto | 96 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 651 | 449 rec. | — | — | Aniceto | 9 |
| PT Portugal | — | 158 | 245 rec. | — | listed | Aniceto | 57 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15641%
- Indonesian7720%
- Swahili4913%
- Dutch328%
- Western Frisian287%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 156 | 41% |
| Indonesian | 77 | 20% |
| Swahili | 49 | 13% |
| Dutch | 32 | 8% |
| Western Frisian | 28 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anicetus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pope
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Anicetusb. 100SYbishop of Rome from c. 157 to 168
- Anicetus Andrew Wang Chongyib. 1919CNChinese bishop (1919-2017)
- Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinagab. 1941ID20th and 21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 29 | #596 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #9,527 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #40 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anicetus?
- We estimate roughly 4.2 thousand people bear Anicetus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anicetus have the most bearers?
- Anicetus is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled aniceto.
- How common is Anicetus compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Anicetus is the 582nd most common given name of 13,897 given names recorded there.
- Is Anicetus a male or female name?
- Anicetus 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 Anicetus mean?
- Recorded meaning: One of the sons of Heracles and Hebe, his brother is Alexiares.
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anicetus” — the 582nd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.