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Meaning of the nameAracy

Aracy is a spelling of the name Araci, which means “'mother of the bees', according to Navarro”.

Meaning

“'mother of the bees', according to Navarro”

Meaning of the name Araci, of which Aracy is a spelling.

Source: Wiktionary: Araci

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People (2022)
3,014
Rank in Brazil
#3,881
Median age
74 years
2010 Census
3,469
people

Aracy in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Aracy, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born before 1940 (851 people).

2,935 women 79 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 Aracy is most common

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

  1. Rio de Janeiro 0.003%
  2. Rio Grande do Sul 0.002%
  3. São Paulo 0.002%
  4. Minas Gerais 0.002%
  5. Paraná 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo8380.002%
Rio de Janeiro4500.003%
Minas Gerais3760.002%
Rio Grande do Sul2480.002%
Bahia1900.001%
Paraná1780.002%
Amazonas770.002%
Santa Catarina730.001%
Pará700.001%
Espírito Santo690.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul570.002%
Goiás500.001%
Maranhão490.001%
Mato Grosso430.001%
Ceará400.001%
Distrito Federal380.001%
Pernambuco310.000%
Alagoas210.001%
Tocantins180.001%
Piauí170.001%
Sergipe160.001%
Rondônia150.001%

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

The spelling Aracy

An old spelling with a final Y, the one that appears in the text of Ubirajara; Wiktionary gives it as an obsolete variant of Araci.

About the name Araci

According to Wiktionary, Alencar created Araci as the name of a character in Ubirajara (1874). Navarro derives the name from the Old Tupi eíra, 'bee', and sy, 'mother', which makes it a parallel form of Iraci; since the character presents herself as 'the star of the day', Wiktionary also allows that it may be a clipping of the Old Tupi kûarasy, 'sun'. The municipality of Araci, in Bahia, was named in 1904 in honor of the character. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 12,016 people named Araci, with a median age of 69; the name is almost always female and proportionally it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Other spellings of Araci

SpellingPeople (2022)
Araci12,016
Aracy3,014

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Araci · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Iraci · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  3. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Araci · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Aracy

What does the name Aracy mean?

Aracy means “'mother of the bees', according to Navarro”, according to Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Araci, of which Aracy is a spelling.

How many people are named Aracy in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,014 people with the first name Aracy, which ranks it number 3,881 among the country's names. The largest group was born before 1940.

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

Aracy is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 2,935 women and 79 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Aracy?

Aracy is a name of Tupi origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Aracy most common?

Proportionally, in Rio de Janeiro: 0.003% of the state's population is named Aracy (450 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Aracy?

Araci. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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