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Fulgencio

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Fulgencio has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1928. 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 1955, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Fulgencio, 1991

1 in 556,000

Fulgencio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fulgencio: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Spanish origin

Spanish

What Fulgencio means

Fulgencio is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fulgencio is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Fulgencio is pronounced /fulˈxenθjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Fulgencio between 1928 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1955; its best national rank was #2,839 in 1955.

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 Fulgencio?

Fulgencio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 556,000
7 of 3,892,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
385,483 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fulgencio 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 1991 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 385,483 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fulgencio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fulgencios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fulgencio was born before 1955 — so the typical Fulgencio is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
22
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Choose a decade

1950s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (9).

Is Fulgencio 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 1955 (9)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,839
1955

Fulgencio around the world

Where Fulgencio 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
    1926–1968
    #1,610
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Fulgencio 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
#2,839
1955
Peak year
1955
9 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Fulgencio

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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