Abelardo

Where Abelardo comes from

Abelardo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,915 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Abelardo Fernández born
    Spanish footballer
  3. 1972
    Peak, #984
    68 babies named Abelardo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1978
    Abelardo de la Espriella born
    43ᵗʰ President of Colombia since 2026
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,453.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Abelardo de la Espriella · 43ᵗʰ President of Colombia since 2026, born 1978
  • Abelardo Fernández · Spanish footballer, born 1970
  • Abelardo L. Rodríguez · President of Mexico, 1889–1967
  • Abelardo Olivier · Italian fencer, 1877–1951
  • Abelardo Montalvo · Acting President of Ecuador, 1876–1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.