First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Spanish and Portuguese: from the personal name Facundo (from Latin facundus ‘talkative’, ‘eloquent’). This was the name of a 4th-century martyr of Leon, who is commemorated in the place name San Facundo.