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Anacleto

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Anacleto has been given to 206 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Anacleto, 1979

1 in 665,000

Anacleto over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anacleto: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anacleto means

Anacleto is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anacleto is used in Cebuano, Italian, Spanish and Tagalog.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Anacleto is pronounced /anaˈkleto/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 206 boys were recorded with the name Anacleto between 1919 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,524 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anacleto?

Anacleto had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anacleto sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anacleto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anacletos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anacleto was born before 1938 — so the typical Anacleto is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
63
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1920s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Anacleto rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (11)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,524
1928

Where Anacleto is used

Across 1910–2025, Anacleto was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 301,442 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anacleto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anacleto around the world

Where Anacleto ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1966–1966
    #1,777
    in 1966
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anacleto by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,524
1928
Peak year
1928
11 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
206
Count in 2025
Under 5

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