Wenceslao

Boys' name

Greater, more + fame, glory, through Wenceslao

Wenceslao has been given to 332 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 2005, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Wenceslao, 2019

1 in 694,000

Wenceslao over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wenceslao: meaning, origin, and history

Greater, more + fame, glory, through Wenceslao

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wenceslao means

Wenceslao belongs to the name family reached through Wenceslao → Wenceslao. Its meaning is “greater, more + fame, glory”.

Origin, language, and formation

Wenceslao is used in Cebuano and Spanish.

Wenceslao comes through Spanish Wenceslao and Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslavъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vyacheslav and Wenceslao.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Wenceslao is pronounced /benθesˈlao/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 332 boys were recorded with the name Wenceslao between 1926 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,622 in 1956.

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.

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How common is Wenceslao?

Wenceslao had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Wenceslao 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wenceslao. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wenceslaos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wenceslao was born before 1988 — so the typical Wenceslao is around 37 today.

Median birth year: 1988; About 37 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 308; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Wenceslao 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (13)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,622; 1956

Where Wenceslao is used

Across 1910–2025, Wenceslao was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 472,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Wenceslao has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wenceslao 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: —
Best rank ever: #2,622; 1956
Peak year: 2005; 13 that year
First recorded: 1926
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 332
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Wenceslao

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

Wendelin Wensley Wentworth Wendall Wenceslaus Estanislao Wendal Wendel Wenzel Wendle Ladislao Wenston Wendy Wendolyn Wences Wenford Wencel Wendell Wendyl Wencil Wen Wender Wensel Wenson

Sibling names for Wenceslao

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

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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