Revelations are part of the institute’s own Nomes do Brasil website; survey portrays the Brazilian population on August 1, 2022
Brazil is a country made up mainly of Marias, Josés, Silvas and Santos. Out of every hundred Brazilians, six are Marias. They total 12.3 million people. In the Ceará cities of Morrinhos and Bela Cruz, Marias make up 22% of the population. The Silvas are 34 million Brazilians or 16% of the population. In six cities in Pernambuco and Alagoas, the Silvas make up more than 60% of the population. The revelations are part of the Nomes do Brasil website, released this Tuesday (4) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (). The interactive tool allows you to consult the occurrence, period of birth, geographic concentration and median age of people with certain names and surnames. The survey portrays the Brazilian population on August 1, 2022, the base date of the 2022 Census.
The period in which the name occurred allows us to identify, for example, that Marias’ birth peak was from 1960 to 1969, with 2.5 million. Between 2020 and 2022, the number was 517 thousand. Names like Gael, Ravi and Valentina saw dizzying growth from 2010 onwards. If in the first decade of the 21st century 763 people were born named Gael, between 2020 and 2022 there were 96.5 thousand. In total, IBGE identified more than 140 thousand names and 200 thousand surnames. There is no differentiation between graphic signs, that is, there is no differentiation between Tamara and Tâmara. In cases such as Ana and Anna, Luís and Luiz, the names are counted separately.
Check out the most popular names and surnames in the country:
Women
Maria: 12,224,470 people
Caves: 3,929,951
Francisca: 661.582
Julia: 646.239
Antonia: 552.951
Juliana: 536.687
Adriana: 533.801
Fernanda: 520.705
Marcia: 520,013
Patricia: 499,140
Men
José: 5,141,822 people
João: 3.410.873
Antonio: 2,231,019
Francisco: 1.659.196
Pedro: 1.613.671
Carlos: 1.468.116
Lucas: 1.332.182
Luiz: 1.326.222
Paulo: 1.326.222
Gabriel: 1.201.030
Surnames
Silva: 34,030,104 people
Santos: 21.367.475
Oliveira: 11.708.947
Souza: 9.197.158
Pereira: 6.888.212
Ferreira: 6.226.228
Lima: 6.094.630
Alves: 5.756.825
Rodrigues: 5.428.540
Costa: 4.861.083
*With information from Agência Brasil
Published by Fernando Dias
