MEANING & HISTORY
What does Simplicio mean?
A University of São Paulo thesis brings together major Portuguese onomastic dictionaries under exact Simplicio and traces it to Latin Simplicius, from simplex. The personal-name history is therefore documented independently of a modern resemblance.
The older plain or simple sense should not be expanded into a judgement of intelligence.
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.
People with the name Simplicio
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
Simplicio de Castro
Filipino boxer
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
9
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: Simplicio de Castro, Simplicio Godino
THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Simplicio in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
SIMPLICIOCSV record 936 (header counted as record 1)
- Other source spellings
- SIMPLICIO JR.
3 matching source records included an explicit generational suffix; that suffix is omitted from this name entry.
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
Linked name entries
Wikidata
Source labels on the name entries
These are the name items identified by the linked people’s given-name claims. Their source labels are shown above, including other scripts where recorded.
Source snapshot: · CC0
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Simplicio 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 Simplicio
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
- Sulpicio·Spanish continuation of the Roman family name Sulpicius
- Felicio·Latin Felix-root formation: fortunate or happy
- Melecio·Meletios form, connected with care and attention
- Sisinio·An Italian form of Late Latin Sisinnius
- Amancio·Loving; Spanish form of Amantius
- Gelacio·Gelasio–Gelasius family, associated with Greek laughing vocabulary
- Ignacio♂Spanish form of Ignatius
- Lucio♂Light; through the Roman name Lucius
What rhymes with Simplicio?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Simplicio 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 Q3961325 — Simplicio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Simplicio de Castro (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3961325 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Simplicio Godino (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q3961325 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Letícia Santos Rodrigues — University of São Paulo doctoral thesis (2024), Simplicio entry p.474 (opens in a new tab)
Academic synthesis quotes Machado, Guérios and Nascentes: exact Simplicio, Latin Simplicius/Simpliciu and simplex, simple.