Hercule
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hercule is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Hercules, name of a mythological hero noted for his great physical strength.
- HTHaiti1 in 17K◐
- CMCameroon1 in 177K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 299K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈89 ●
- Sources
- 88 ●
- 1 in 2.4M ◐
across 2 countries
1.3K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
From Latin Hercules, name of a mythological hero noted for his great physical strength.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 501 | 763 rec. | — | 21 | Hercule | 88 |
| US United States | — | 179 | 355 rec. | — | 181 | Hercule | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 87 | — | 1 in 2.4M | 131 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 53 | 57 rec. | — | — | Hercule | 10 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 11 | 10 rec. | — | listed | Hercule | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | 11 | 11 rec. | — | — | Hercule | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 11 | 11 rec. | — | — | Hercule | 2 |
| HT Haiti | #196 | 10 | 10 rec. | — | listed | Hercule | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | 6 rec. | — | — | Hercule | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Hercule | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CF Central African Republic | — | — | — | — | 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●
- French79336%
- Portuguese76235%
- English41619%
- Spanish944%
- German141%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 793 | 36% |
| Portuguese | 762 | 35% |
| English | 416 | 19% |
| Spanish | 94 | 4% |
| German | 14 | 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●
Hercule is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du latin Hercules, du grec Hēraklês; signifie « gloire d’Héra ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Latin Hercūles, héros mythologique; probablement d’origine pré-grecque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latin, ablative singular of Herculēs
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 |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1901 | 16 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1921 | 10 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1941 | 14 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1961 | 13 |
| 1971 | 23 |
| 1981 | 20 |
| 1991 | 21 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hercule, Lord of Monacob. 1562MCMonegasque noble (1562-1604)
- Hercule-Girard Charnacéb. 1588FRFrench diplomat
- Cyrano de Bergeracb. 1619FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)
- Ercole, Marquis of Bauxb. 1623FRnot in their usual nameMonegasque prince
- André-Hercule de Fleuryb. 1653FRCatholic cardinal (1653-1743)
- Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohanb. 1669FRFrench aristocrat (1669-1749)
- Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéménéb. 1688FRFrench nobleman and Duke of Montbazon (1688-1757)
- Hercule de Serreb. 1776FRFrench politician and diplomat
- Hércules Florenceb. 1804FRnot in their usual nameFrench artist, photographer and inventor (1804-1879)
- Roger Degueldreb. 1925FRnot in their usual nameFrench foreign legion lieutenant (1925–1962)
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 181 | #105,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 131 | #51,558 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 106 | #17,898 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 87 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #45,476 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 34 | #52,628 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hercule?
- We estimate roughly 89 people bear Hercule (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hercule have the most bearers?
- Hercule is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled hercule.
- How common is Hercule compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Hercule is the 196th most common given name of 608 given names recorded there.
- Is Hercule a male or female name?
- Hercule 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 Hercule mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Hercules, name of a mythological hero noted for his great physical strength.
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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, “Hercule” — the 196th most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.