Wenceslao
Wenceslao is a boy's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 5,875th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 290 Wenceslaos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Wenceslao
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 332
- Estimated living today
- 290
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 5,875th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1926
How old the living Wenceslaos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 332 babies given the name since 1926, about 290 are alive — 87 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Wenceslaos
- Wenceslao Selga Padilla (1949–2018)Filipino Scheut priest
- Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (1885–1964)Spanish writer
People named Wenceslao with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wenceslao is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Wenceslao is most concentrated in Texas (8.2×), California (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Wenceslao peaked:
Where Wenceslao lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,785 men called Wenceslao were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albacete | Wenceslao | 50 | 0.255 | 321 |
| Badajoz | Wenceslao | 60 | 0.183 | 354 |
| Salamanca | Wenceslao | 27 | 0.170 | 446 |
| Cáceres | Wenceslao | 32 | 0.166 | 456 |
| Zamora | Wenceslao | 13 | 0.159 | 471 |
| León | Wenceslao | 32 | 0.147 | 501 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Wenceslao against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.