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Meaning of the nameAide

Aide is a female name of uncertain origin, used mostly by people born up to the 1960s, alongside the spellings Haide and Haydée.

Meaning

The meaning of Aide 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)
4,415
Rank in Brazil
#2,990
Median age
64 years
2010 Census
6,359
people

Aide in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Aide, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (1,164 people).

4,259 women 156 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 Aide is most common

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

  1. Bahia 0.005%
  2. Mato Grosso do Sul 0.004%
  3. Rio Grande do Sul 0.004%
  4. Rio de Janeiro 0.003%
  5. Espírito Santo 0.003%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo9950.002%
Bahia7480.005%
Minas Gerais5030.002%
Rio de Janeiro4570.003%
Rio Grande do Sul3790.004%
Paraná2600.002%
Santa Catarina1570.002%
Goiás1530.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul1160.004%
Espírito Santo1010.003%
Distrito Federal800.003%
Mato Grosso760.002%
Pernambuco650.001%
Maranhão520.001%
Pará480.001%
Amazonas410.001%
Ceará360.000%
Sergipe300.001%
Tocantins240.002%
Rio Grande do Norte200.001%
Paraíba170.000%
Rondônia170.001%
Alagoas160.001%

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

About the name Aide

The origin of Aide is uncertain. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Ayde, Haide and Hayde as spelling variants of Aide and records Haydee in a separate entry, with the variants Aidee, Aydee and Haidee. The spelling Haydée comes from literature: according to Behind the Name, the name was created by Lord Byron for a character in the poem Don Juan (1819), spelled Haidée, and Wiktionary gives Haydée as the French and Spanish form of that name. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,415 people named Aide, with a median age of 64.

It is the most common spelling in the group, with no H or Y; proportionally, it is most common in Bahia.

Other spellings of Aide

SpellingPeople (2022)
Aide4,415
Haydée1,301
Haide1,035

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Aide · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Haydee · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  3. Behind the Name: Haidee · behindthename.com · origin
  4. Wiktionary: Haydée · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Aide

What does the name Aide mean?

The meaning of Aide 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 Aide in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,415 people with the first name Aide, which ranks it number 2,990 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

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

Aide is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 4,259 women and 156 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Aide most common?

Proportionally, in Bahia: 0.005% of the state's population is named Aide (748 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Aide?

Haydée and Haide. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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