MEANING & HISTORY
What does Arcadio mean?
Arcadio is the Spanish form of Arcadius, Latinized from Greek Arkadios. The older formation refers to Arcadia, a region of Greece.
It is a geographical personal name rather than a direct adjective meaning brave warrior. The place connection does not establish Greek nationality or a particular ancestral journey for a modern bearer.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a male given name
Wiktionary: Arcadio (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Arcadio
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Arcadio Maxílom
Cebuan schoolteacher turned Philippine revolutionary general (1862–1924)
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
5
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
2
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Arcadio Maxílom, Arcadio Gorriceta
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Arcadio in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Arcadio
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Abundio·Abundant or plentiful
- Archie♂Short form of Archibald; bold and genuine
- Ariadne♀Possibly most holy; ancient Greek name
- Armando♂Army man; form of Herman
- Arnaldo♂Eagle power
- Arsenio♂Form of Greek Arsenios: virile or masculine
- Artemio♂Related to Artemis; form of Artemios
- Eladio·Of Greece; from Greek Helladios
What rhymes with Arcadio?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Arcadio further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q21069236 — Arcadio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Arcadio Maxílom (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q21069236 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Arcadio Gorriceta (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q21069236 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Arcadio (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Arcadio (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Arcadius (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Arkadios (opens in a new tab)
Actually consulted explicitly linked base-name account; relevant formation or root sense, separate from individual family intention.