Lupercio as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Lupercio

What is the meaning of the name Lupercio ?

The baby name Lupercio is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /luˈpeɾ.sjo/ (Spanish); anglicized: loo-PER-see-oh.

Lupercio is Latin in Origin.

Lupercio is a Spanish masculine name derived from Latin Lupercius, a theophoric form linked to Lupercus, the Roman pastoral god. The root is Latin lupus, "wolf," and the term Luperci named the priests of the Lupercalia. As a given name it conveys senses such as "of Lupercus," "belonging to the Luperci," or, more broadly, "wolf-associated" and protective of flocks.

Documented in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, it appears in hagiography for early bishops and martyrs of Hispania and Gaul under the Latin forms Lupercius/Luperculus. The name later gained literary visibility through the Spanish poet and dramatist Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (1559–1613). Today it remains uncommon in the Hispanic world and in Brazil, where the accented Lupércio occurs. Variants and cognates include Latin Lupercius and Luperculus, Portuguese Lupércio, French Luperc/Lupercule, and the related form Luperco; occasional diminutives are Lupe and Perci.