Fulgencio is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “bright, brilliant.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Fulgencio at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“bright, brilliant”
About the name Fulgencio
Fulgencio belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “bright, brilliant” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Fulgencio first appears in Social Security records in 1928. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2839 in 1955, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 27 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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