New Baby Name

Toribio

← Back to The Biblical World

Boy · Late Latin, uncertain

Toribio

Say it: toh-REE-byoh

Try it with your surname

Meaning

Uncertain; from Late Latin Turibius.

Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

0510152018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1929per million babies of that sex
  • 834 babies given this name since 1914
  • At its height in 1929, about 1 in 56,600 boys
  • Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
  2. The Renaissance1400 to 1600
  3. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914

Used by

Spanish

Famous bearers

  • Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, archbishop of Lima

Names worth a look

Where this comes from

  • Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
  • Calendars of saints and name days
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.