MEANING & HISTORY
What does Bienvenida mean?
Bienvenida is documented as a Spanish personal name built from bienvenido, welcome. The feminine ending is part of the recorded name, rather than a separate word for a second quality.
The full expression offers a welcoming sense; it is not a compound of two independent catalogue names. Its Philippine source occurrence is retained as a name-form record.
References for this explanation
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.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
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 ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Bienvenida in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
BIENVENIDACSV record 11,014 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Bienvenida 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 Bienvenida
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
- Bienvenido♂Welcome; literally well come in Spanish
- Leonida·Leonidas form in the Greek lion-name family
- Nelida·Literary name documented as an anagram of Daniel
- Zenaida♀Greek Zeus-name derivative
- Adelaida♀Noble kind; Spanish form of Adelaide
- Bianca♀White or fair-coloured
- Bingbing♀Repeated familiar form of Isabel
- Brigida·Italian Bridget form; the exalted one
What rhymes with Bienvenida?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Bienvenida 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.
- Behind the Name — Bienvenida (opens in a new tab)
Exact personal name and Spanish bienvenido meaning.