Gildo
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gildo is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a Germanic Rufname.
- BRBrazil1 in 13K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 86K
- PEPeru1 in 133K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- Sources
- 104 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 7 countries
41K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
from a Germanic Rufname
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 15,685 | 25K rec. | 1 in 13K | 19K | Gildo | 104 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,302 | 1.9K rec. | — | 2 | Gildo | 28 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,955 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Gildo | 20 |
| PE Peru | — | 1,690 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Gildo | 23 |
| MX Mexico | — | 640 | 2.2K rec. | — | 10 | Gildo | 46 |
| IT Italy | — | 462 | 467 rec. | — | 3 | Gildo | 34 |
| MZ Mozambique | #7 | 411 | 75 rec. | — | 1 | Gildo | 26 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 349 | 190 rec. | — | — | Gildo | 9 |
| AO Angola | #173 | 335 | 378 rec. | — | — | Gildo | 29 |
| CL Chile | — | 250 | 22 rec. | — | 3 | Gildo | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 191 | 176 rec. | — | — | Gildo | 35 |
| US United States | — | 168 | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 2M | 221 | Gildo | 71 |
Roughly 16K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 13K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese290K91%
- English18K6%
- Spanish6.7K2%
- French7211%
- Italian5391%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 289,763 | 91% |
| English | 17,569 | 6% |
| Spanish | 6,718 | 2% |
| French | 721 | 1% |
| Italian | 539 | 1% |
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●
Gildo 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 Latin, A Roman general of Mauritania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, guild
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1914 | 12 |
| 1915 | 7 |
| 1916 | 11 |
| 1917 | 9 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 13 |
| 1921 | 9 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 12 |
| 1926 | 9 |
| 1927 | 13 |
| 1928 | 12 |
| 1930 | 6 |
| 1931 | 6 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1956 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 21 years between 1912–1956. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gildo Boccib. 1886ITItalian actor (1886-1964)
- Gildo Arenab. 1922ITItalian swimmer and water polo player
- Gildo Mahonesb. 1929USAmerican pianist (1929–2018)
- Gildo Siorpaesb. 1938ITbobsledder
- Gildo Rodriguesb. 1939BRBrazilian football manager (1939–2009)
- Gildo Cunha do Nascimentob. 1939BRBrazilian footballer (1939-2019)
- Gildo Insfránb. 1951ARArgentine politician
- Gildo De Stefanob. 1953ITItalian music writer
- Gildo Pallanca Pastorb. 1967MCMonegasque businessman
- Gildo Vilanculosb. 1995MZassociation football player
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 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,465 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 19K | #480 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 16K | #1,256 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 14K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 4.2K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 261 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gildo?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Gildo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gildo have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Gildo in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gildo.
- How common is Gildo compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Gildo is the 7th most common given name of 1,105 given names recorded there.
- Is Gildo a male or female name?
- Gildo 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 Gildo mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a Germanic Rufname
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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, “Gildo” — the 7th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.