Wenceslao — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wenceslao

The Social Security Administration has registered 332 babies named Wenceslao between 1926 and 2019, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wenceslao currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wenceslao performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Wenceslao shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Wenceslao in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wenceslao in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 332 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.