MEANING & HISTORY
What does Braulio mean?
Braulio is an old Christian personal name preserved through Saint Braulio of Zaragoza, the seventh-century bishop and associate of Isidore of Seville. The Real Academia Galega records the name in Galician texts from the tenth century and regards its origin as disputed, possibly pre-Roman.
A Portuguese onomastic dictionary identifies the Late Latin form Braulio. This concrete historical ancestry is more defensible than selecting one of the contradictory popular sword or brightness translations.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name, equivalent to English Lalo
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People with the name Braulio
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
Braulio Yaranon
Filipino politician
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
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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: Braulio Yaranon, Braulio Española Dujali
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Braulio 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 Braulio
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
- Basilio♂Royal or kingly
- Brando·Germanic fire, torch or sword element
- Briccio·Bricius/Brice-family form with disputed Gaulish ancestry
- Bruno♂Germanic armour or brown name-element
- Getulio♂Of Gaetulia, through Latin Gaetulius
- Julio♂Spanish form of Julius
- Anatolio·Of the east, through Greek Anatolios
- Aurelio♂Golden
What rhymes with Braulio?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Braulio 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.
- Wikidata given-name item Q1120182 — Braulio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Braulio Yaranon (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q1120182 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Braulio Española Dujali (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q1120182 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Braulio (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Real Academia Galega — Braulio (opens in a new tab)
Exact name account identifies uncertain, possibly pre-Roman ancestry, medieval attestations, and Saint Braulio of Zaragoza.
- Porto Editora, Infopédia — Bráulio (opens in a new tab)
The specialist onomastic dictionary identifies Late Latin Braulio and does not assign a secure literal meaning.
- A. Tavares Louro, Ciberdúvidas — A origem de Bráulio (opens in a new tab)
Independent linguistic consultation states that the etymology remains unexplained and names two scholarly reference works that likewise do not resolve it.