Uvaldo
Masculine · “A form of Ubaldo”
Uvaldo is a Spanish form of Ubaldo, the name of a twelfth-century bishop of Gubbio, whose town still races three towering wooden pillars up a mountain in his honor every May. Three syllables, strong and rounded.
How old is the name Uvaldo?
Uvaldo first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Uvaldo alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 500 people named Uvaldo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Uvaldo most popular?
Uvaldo peaked in 1946, reaching #2143 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
Where it comes from
From Hugibald to Uvaldo
The story of Uvaldo
Saint Ubaldo Baldassini was bishop of Gubbio in Umbria in the twelfth century and is remembered for having talked the emperor Frederick Barbarossa out of sacking the town. Every 15 May, on the eve of his feast, Gubbio holds the Corsa dei Ceri: three teams run three huge wooden 'candles', each topped with a saint's statue, through the streets and up Monte Ingino to his basilica. The name reached Mexico and the American Southwest as Ubaldo and Uvaldo. The Texas town of Uvalde is unrelated: it is named after Juan de Ugalde, a Spanish governor, and the spelling changed over time.
Meaning
A form of Ubaldo, Germanic 'bold mind'
Ubaldo comes from the Germanic elements hug, 'mind, spirit', and bald, 'bold'.
How the name formed
- Hugibald
- Ubaldo
- Uvaldo
Related forms: Ubaldo · Ubaldo · Ubaldo
Pronouncing Uvaldo
oo-VAHL-doh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Uvaldo
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most boys named
- 199616 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2143reached in 1946
- Change vs 2017
- +20.0%6 in 2021, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Uvaldo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ubaldo in Italian — same name
- Ubaldo in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ubaldo in Portuguese — same name
Uvaldos among us
people named Uvaldo are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Uvaldo sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A real saint's name with a lively living tradition.
- A settled Germanic meaning.
- Rare, so an Uvaldo is unlikely to meet another.
- Many Americans will think of Uvalde, Texas, and the 2022 school shooting there, even though the names are unrelated.
- Ubaldo is the more common spelling, so it may be corrected.
- Outside Spanish-speaking families it will need pronouncing.
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Frequently asked
- How many Uvaldos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Uvaldo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Uvaldo in 2025?
- Uvaldo is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Uvaldo with classmates?
- Uvaldo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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