Meaning of the nameAdalgisa

Female
Germanic origin
A-dal-gi-sa

Adalgisa is a feminine name that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) analyzes as Adal- plus giza, whose first element may come from Germanic adal, 'noble'.

Meaning

The meaning of Adalgisa is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022): 6,665
Rank in Brazil: #2,237
Median age: 63 years
2010 Census: 9,565; people

Adalgisa in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Adalgisa, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (1,618 people).

6,630 women 35 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Adalgisa is most common

States with the highest share of people named Adalgisa in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Piauí 0.008%
Paraíba 0.006%
Pernambuco 0.005%
Bahia 0.005%
Distrito Federal 0.004%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	1,556	0.004%
Minas Gerais	689	0.003%
Bahia	665	0.005%
Rio de Janeiro	532	0.003%
Pernambuco	455	0.005%
Ceará	334	0.004%
Paraná	309	0.003%
Piauí	257	0.008%
Paraíba	230	0.006%
Pará	227	0.003%
Maranhão	206	0.003%
Goiás	163	0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul	124	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	114	0.004%
Distrito Federal	109	0.004%
Mato Grosso do Sul	101	0.004%
Santa Catarina	100	0.001%
Amazonas	88	0.002%
Espírito Santo	76	0.002%
Alagoas	73	0.002%
Mato Grosso	70	0.002%
Sergipe	61	0.003%
Tocantins	45	0.003%
Rondônia	35	0.002%
Acre	18	0.002%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Adalgisa

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists the formation Adal- + giza and gives Adalgiza, Adaljisa, Adaugisa and Adaujisa among the spelling variants. The project's morpheme list gives Adal- as an element of Germanic origin, athal > adal, 'noble', or as a fragment of traditional given names, and cites Adalgiza among those traditional names. The origin of the second element, giza, is uncertain, and the meaning of the whole name is not known for certain. It is an almost always female name of older generations, concentrated among people born in the 1940s to 1960s. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 6,665 people named Adalgisa, with a median age of 63. Proportionally, it is most common in Piauí.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Adalgisa · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Adalgisa

What does the name Adalgisa mean?

The meaning of Adalgisa is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Adalgisa in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 6,665 people with the first name Adalgisa, which ranks it number 2,237 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Adalgisa a boy's or a girl's name?

Adalgisa is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 6,630 women and 35 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Adalgisa?

Adalgisa is a name of Germanic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Adalgisa most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.008% of the state's population is named Adalgisa (257 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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