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Meaning of the nameAlini

Alini and Aliny are two female Brazilian spellings whose pronunciation matches that of Aline, a name of French origin.

Meaning

The meaning of Alini 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)
2,029
Rank in Brazil
#5,065
Median age
32 years
2010 Census
3,335
people

Alini in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Alini, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (788 people).

2,024 women 0 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 Alini is most common

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

  1. Santa Catarina 0.004%
  2. Espírito Santo 0.004%
  3. Rio Grande do Sul 0.002%
  4. Paraná 0.002%
  5. São Paulo 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo4220.001%
Santa Catarina2900.004%
Rio Grande do Sul2540.002%
Paraná2230.002%
Espírito Santo1340.004%
Minas Gerais1150.001%
Rio de Janeiro1090.001%
Mato Grosso810.002%
Pará610.001%
Goiás590.001%
Bahia470.000%
Amazonas310.001%
Ceará280.000%
Mato Grosso do Sul250.001%
Rondônia240.002%
Pernambuco210.000%
Maranhão210.000%

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

About the name Alini

For Brazilian Portuguese, Wiktionary gives the pronunciation of Aline as /aˈlĩ.ni/, and the spellings Alini and Aliny follow that same sound. According to Wiktionary, Aline is a name borrowed from French, and Behind the Name describes it as a medieval short form of Adeline. The specific origin of the spellings Alini and Aliny is uncertain. They are almost always female names, and the records are concentrated among people born in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,029 people named Alini and 2,154 named Aliny.

Written with a final -i; its records run from people born in the 1970s to those born in the 2010s.

Other spellings of Alini

SpellingPeople (2022)
Aliny2,154
Alini2,029

Sources

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

Questions about the name Alini

What does the name Alini mean?

The meaning of Alini 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 Alini in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,029 people with the first name Alini, which ranks it number 5,065 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Alini is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 2,024 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Alini most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.004% of the state's population is named Alini (290 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Alini?

Aliny. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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