Prudencio
Prudencio or Prudêncio may refer to the following peopleGiven namePrudencio Benavides (1870–?), Cuban baseball center fielder and manager Prudencio Cardona, Colombian boxer Prudencio Indurain, Spanish cyclist Prudencio Norales, Honduran football midfielder Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra, Spanish merchant, soldier and government official Prudencio Ortiz de Rozas (1800–1857), Argentine…
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Prudencio
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Prudencio or Prudêncio may refer to the following peopleGiven namePrudencio Benavides (1870–?), Cuban baseball center fielder and manager Prudencio Cardona, Colombian boxer Prudencio Indurain, Spanish cyclist Prudencio Norales, Honduran football midfielder Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra, Spanish merchant, soldier and government official Prudencio Ortiz de Rozas (1800–1857), Argentine…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Prudencio
American parents first put Prudencio on the record books as a baby boy name in 1915, with 7 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1930, when 15 Prudencios were born — ranking #1,964 that year. Prudencio last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 401 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Prudencio
Prudencio is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 401 births in the dataset. Prudencio's peak popularity came in 1930 when it ranked #1,964. Use the chart and map above to compare Prudencio'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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