Simplicius
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Simplicius is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- PHPhilippines1 in 50K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 183K
- ESSpain1 in 658K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 16 ●
- 1 in 183K ◐
across 7 countries
3.5K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Simplicio in PH Philippines, US United States, IT Italy and 1 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●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | 3,341 | 3.3K rec. | — | listed | Simplicio | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 1,159 | — | 1 in 183K | 1.5K | — | — |
| US United States | 284△ | 48 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 284 | Simplicio | 15 |
| ES Spain | 76 | — | 1 in 658K | 83 | — | — |
| IT Italy | 29 | 50 rec. | — | 1 | Simplicio | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | — | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | — |
| CA Canada | 5 | 6 rec. | — | — | Simplicio | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | — | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | — | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | — | — | — | 577 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | 104 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2520%
- Swahili2419%
- 2016%
- Indonesian1814%
- Dutch1512%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 25 | 20% |
| Swahili | 24 | 19% |
| 20 | 16% | |
| Indonesian | 18 | 14% |
| Dutch | 15 | 12% |
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●
Simplicius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of simplicior
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●
- Simpliciusb. 420ITpope
- Simpliciusb. 550Bishop of Urgel
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 11 | #16,896 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #72 |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Simplicius?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Simplicius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Simplicius have the most bearers?
- Simplicius is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled simplicio.
- Is Simplicius a male or female name?
- Simplicius 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 Simplicius 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.
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, “Simplicius”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.