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Meaning of the nameArilene

Arilene is a Brazilian feminine name ending in -lene, recorded since the 1940s.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,482 people named Arilene, the 6,316th most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 40, and the largest group was born in the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Pará.

Meaning

The meaning of Arilene is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,482
Rank in Brazil
#6,316
Median age
40 years
2010 Census
1,622
people

Arilene in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Arilene, 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 (436 people).

1,467 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 Arilene is most common

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

  1. Pará 0.002%
  2. Ceará 0.001%
  3. Bahia 0.001%
  4. Rio de Janeiro 0.001%
  5. Minas Gerais 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Pará1970.002%
São Paulo1520.000%
Bahia1250.001%
Rio de Janeiro1220.001%
Minas Gerais1170.001%
Ceará1060.001%
Maranhão940.001%
Amazonas800.002%
Goiás630.001%
Rio Grande do Norte490.002%
Pernambuco450.001%
Paraíba390.001%
Piauí370.001%
Rio Grande do Sul310.000%
Santa Catarina260.000%
Paraná250.000%
Mato Grosso do Sul230.001%
Tocantins210.001%
Mato Grosso200.001%
Alagoas200.001%
Amapá200.003%
Espírito Santo160.000%

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

About the name Arilene

The origin of Arilene is uncertain. The morphemary of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil describes the feminine formative -ene/-lene, probably from French -enne or a fragment of names such as Irene and Marlene, but the formation of Arilene is not documented. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,482 people named Arilene, with a median age of 40. Proportionally, it is most common in Pará, and the name is almost always female.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-ene, -lene) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Arilene

What does the name Arilene mean?

The meaning of Arilene is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Arilene in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,482 people with the first name Arilene, which ranks it number 6,316 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Arilene is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,467 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Arilene most common?

Proportionally, in Pará: 0.002% of the state's population is named Arilene (197 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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