Arcadio
Arcadio is a given name. Notable people with the name include:José Arcadio Buendía, fictional patriarch in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez Arcadio Arellano (1872–1920), notable architect who was considered a pioneer during his time Arcadio González, former football player from Paraguay Arcadio Huang, Chinese Christian convert, brought to Paris by…
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Arcadio
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Arcadio is a given name. Notable people with the name include:José Arcadio Buendía, fictional patriarch in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez Arcadio Arellano (1872–1920), notable architect who was considered a pioneer during his time Arcadio González, former football player from Paraguay Arcadio Huang, Chinese Christian convert, brought to Paris by…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Arcadio
The earliest SSA record of Arcadio as a baby boy name dates back to 1914, when 5 babies received it. 1988 was its biggest year on record, with 24 newborns named Arcadio — #2,437 in the national rankings. Arcadio last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Arcadio
Arcadio is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1914 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Arcadio's peak popularity came in 1988 when it ranked #2,437. Use the chart and map above to compare Arcadio's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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