Meaning of the nameAgnaldo

Male
Germanic origin
Ag-nal-do

Agnaldo is a male name of Germanic origin, from the name Aginal, formed from agin, 'sword', and wald, 'to rule', and a variant of Aguinaldo.

Meaning

“from Aginal, a Germanic name from agin, 'sword', and wald, 'to rule'”

Source: Wiktionary: Agnaldo

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People (2022): 60,131
Rank in Brazil: #505
Median age: 49 years
2010 Census: 69,092; people

Agnaldo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Agnaldo, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1970s (23,925 people).

155 women 59,976 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 Agnaldo is most common

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

Bahia 0.066%
Sergipe 0.046%
Minas Gerais 0.041%
Rondônia 0.040%
São Paulo 0.037%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	16,599	0.037%
Bahia	9,396	0.066%
Minas Gerais	8,478	0.041%
Paraná	3,823	0.033%
Rio de Janeiro	2,892	0.018%
Goiás	2,322	0.033%
Pernambuco	1,838	0.020%
Pará	1,618	0.020%
Santa Catarina	1,471	0.019%
Espírito Santo	1,348	0.035%
Mato Grosso	1,327	0.036%
Maranhão	1,179	0.017%
Mato Grosso do Sul	1,027	0.037%
Sergipe	1,006	0.046%
Amazonas	690	0.018%
Alagoas	647	0.021%
Rio Grande do Sul	645	0.006%
Rondônia	624	0.040%
Paraíba	584	0.015%
Distrito Federal	584	0.021%
Ceará	493	0.006%
Piauí	475	0.015%
Rio Grande do Norte	429	0.013%
Tocantins	278	0.018%
Amapá	159	0.022%
Roraima	114	0.018%
Acre	85	0.010%

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

About the name Agnaldo

Wiktionary records Agnaldo as derived from the Germanic name Aginal, composed of agin ('sword') and wald ('to rule'), and gives Aguinaldo as an alternative form. Behind the Name presents Agnaldo, used in Brazil, as a variant of Aguinaldo, with the same roots agin and walt, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) also lists Aguinaldo as a spelling variant. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 60,131 people named Agnaldo, with a median age of 49. The name is almost always male, most of the people recorded were born in the 1960s and 1970s, and, proportionally, it is most common in Bahia.

Sources

Wiktionary: Agnaldo · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Agnaldo · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Agnaldo · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Agnaldo

What does the name Agnaldo mean?

Agnaldo means “from Aginal, a Germanic name from agin, 'sword', and wald, 'to rule'”, according to Wiktionary.

How many people are named Agnaldo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 60,131 people with the first name Agnaldo, which ranks it number 505 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Agnaldo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 155 women and 59,976 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Agnaldo?

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

In which Brazilian state is Agnaldo most common?

Proportionally, in Bahia: 0.066% of the state's population is named Agnaldo (9,396 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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