Flaco
given name · Latin script
Meaning: skinny, thin, slim
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Tribunal Electoral, 2024
Flaco is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 56Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 63Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 98K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)skinny, thin, slim
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Flaco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Flaco | 30 |
| CO Colombia | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Flaco | 17 |
| US United States | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Flaco | 51 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Flaco | 5 |
| CL Chile | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Flaco | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Flaco | 10 |
| PA Panama | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 13 | Flaco | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Flaco is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, feeble; frail
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of flacu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cbk, thin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Flaco NavajaUSAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Flaco mean, and where does it come from?
- skinny, thin, slim Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Flaco a male or female name?
- Flaco is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Flaco?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Flaco in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flaco. After it come Colombia, United States, Guatemala and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Flaco?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,300 people in Mexico have Flaco as their first given name, about 1 in 98 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Flaco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flacoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Flaco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.