MEANING & HISTORY
What does Ubaldo mean?
The Real Academia Galega explains Ubaldo through the same first root as Hugo and the Germanic element balth, bold or valiant. Its Hugo entry relates the first element to hug, intelligence or good sense.
Reading the two academy entries together supports the elements without inventing a fixed ancient sentence. The equivalence table includes the exact Spanish, Italian and Portuguese spelling Ubaldo. These are name-history elements, not a prediction of a child’s character.
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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
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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 ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
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Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
UBALDOCSV record 10,212 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Ubaldo 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 Ubaldo
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
- Waldo♂Surname from Waltheof, or a Germanic power-name short form
- Arnaldo♂Eagle power
- Donaldo·Spanish Donald, from world and rule
- Gildo·Italian short name in the -gild family
- Heraldo·Portuguese name through Hérard: army and strength
- Osvaldo♂God and power; form of Oswald
- Oswaldo·Deity and power, through Oswald
- Poldo♂Short form of Leopoldo; people and bold-name family
What rhymes with Ubaldo?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
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- 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.
- Real Academia Galega — Ubaldo (opens in a new tab)
Exact Hugo-family first element plus balth bold/valiant; equivalence spellings.
- Real Academia Galega — Hugo (opens in a new tab)
First-element explanation concerning intelligence or good sense; qualified older Germanic account.