About BrazilNames

What the site is

BrazilNames is a reference on the given names used in Brazil. Each page covers one spelling (Kauã, Kauan, Cauã…) and shows the meaning, when a reliable source exists, the origin of the word, the other spellings of the same name and how many people IBGE recorded with each of them. The lists by alphabetical order, male names, female names, origin and meaning help you browse among them.

What sets us apart

• Every meaning has a source

  We publish a meaning only when a source we opened confirms it, such as Wiktionary, the *Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil* or dictionaries of the Portuguese language. The link appears on the page, under “Fonte” (source).

• Official figures on every page

  Each name carries data from IBGE's 2022 Demographic Census: total people, distribution by decade of birth, sex, median age and states. See how to read the IBGE data.

• Every spelling counts

  IBGE counts each spelling separately, and so do we: Thiago and Tiago, Kauã and Cauã have their own pages, linked to each other.

• No invented meanings

  When the origin of a name is not known with certainty, we say so and publish what is fact: the IBGE figures, the variants and how the spelling came about. We never fill the gap with an unsourced meaning.

How the content is made

The texts are written with the help of artificial intelligence and go through an independent check of the sources and automated checks. The step-by-step process is in the methodology, and the rules we follow are in the editorial policy.

Sister sites

BrazilNames follows the same method as three sites about names from other countries: TurkiyeNames, on names from Turkey, IndonesianNames, on names from Indonesia, and MalaysianNames, on names from Malaysia.