Uxío
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Meaning
well-born (Galician form of Eugenio); borne by Uxío Novoneyra, one of the great Galician-language poets
The story
Uxío is Eugene with a Galician passport, from the Greek eugenes, well-born, and it is impossible to say the name without telling a language's story. Its great bearer was born Eugenio Novo Neira in 1930, and in a Spain that from 1938 allowed only Spanish name-forms for its newborns, he chose to publish as Uxío Novoneyra: poet of the Courel mountains, author of Os Eidos in 1955. Galicia's answer was formal. The Real Academia Galega dedicated the Día das Letras Galegas to him in 2010, the May 17 literary holiday the region has kept since 1963. The name hardly exists in the American record, and in Galicia it reads the opposite of obscure: it reads like a flag. Well-born, says the Greek. Reborn, the Galician might answer.
How popular is Uxío around the world?
Uxío does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. In Spain, 421 residents are named Uxío, ranked 2,599th among men, with a mean age of 22.3 years.
Uxío is on the official records of Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
Uxío does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 110,000
In Spain, 421 residents are named Uxío, ranked 2,599th among men, with a mean age of 22.3 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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