Facundo

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Facundus in HN Honduras.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Facundo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name19K records spelled Facundo7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Spain, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Fåçüńdô, Fåçueńdô

• Arabic given name661 records spelled Facundo4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Peru, Egypt

  Also written Fàcùndò, Facündo

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Facundo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, eloquent

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, do lat. facundus, eloquente

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Inteligente

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fācundus

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 100 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Facundo Cabralb. 1937ARArgentine singer and songwriter (1937–2011)
• Facundo Parrab. 1985ARArgentinian footballer (born 1985)
• Facundo Roncagliab. 1987ARArgentine footballer
• Facundo Ferreyrab. 1991ARArgentinian association football player
• Facundo Campazzob. 1991ARArgentine basketball player (born 1991)
• Facundo Medinab. 1999ARArgentinian association football player
• Facundo Torresb. 2000UYUruguayan association football player
• Facundo Pellistrib. 2001UYUruguayan association football player
• Facundo Gonzálezb. 2003UYUruguayan footballer
• Facundo Buonanotteb. 2004ARArgentine association football player (born 2004)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 648 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Facundo?

We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Facundo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Facundo have the most bearers?

Facundo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled facundo.

How common is Facundo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Facundo is the 121st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Facundo a male or female name?

Facundo 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 Facundo mean?

Recorded meaning: Latin Facundus; “eloquent, fluent in speech,” from fari, “to speak”.