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Candelario

#7,273 in 2025Boys' name

Masculine form of Candelaria

Candelario has been given to 2,319 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #7,273 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1929, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Candelario, 2025

1 in 301,000

Candelario 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candelario: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine form of Candelaria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Candelario means

Candelario is a masculine form of Candelaria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Candelario → Candelaria. The family’s meaning is “Candlemas”, recorded in Tagalog with the source elements Candelaria.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Candelaria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,319 boys were recorded with the name Candelario between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1929; its best national rank was #1,124 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,823 in 2020 to #7,273 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,571 in 2015 to #7,273 in 2025.

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 Candelario?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,273
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candelario 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candelario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candelarios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candelario was born before 1962 — so the typical Candelario is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
11.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,472
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 11.6% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Candelario 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,550
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+298
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 1929 (38)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,124
1945

Where Candelario is used

Across 1910–2025, Candelario was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 22,852 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 11,111
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 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. Candelario has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Candelario

People whose public names include Candelario, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Candelario by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,550
Best rank ever
#1,124
1945
Peak year
1929
38 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,319
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Candelario

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CandidoSilverioDemetrioPorfirioDesiderioVittorioCanyonMacarioSaverioCanonCanaanJamarioDamarioHilarioRomarioGregorioNazarioEleuterioRosarioCantrellCantonOlegarioDemarioCannon

Names with a curve like Candelario

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Candelario, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NarcisoCiprianoRosalioAnastacioEusebioFlorentinoFlorencioModestoConradoPorfirioAnselmoDelfino

Sibling names for Candelario

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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