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Meaning of the nameAurinete

Aurinete is a Brazilian feminine name of modern formation, ending in -inete, an ending found in names such as Claudinete and Marinete.

Meaning

The meaning of Aurinete 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)
2,426
Rank in Brazil
#4,504
Median age
48 years
2010 Census
2,633
people

Aurinete in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Aurinete, 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 (728 people).

2,407 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 Aurinete is most common

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

  1. Ceará 0.006%
  2. Piauí 0.004%
  3. Pernambuco 0.004%
  4. Maranhão 0.004%
  5. Rio Grande do Norte 0.003%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Ceará5340.006%
Pernambuco3710.004%
Maranhão2670.004%
São Paulo1940.000%
Pará1460.002%
Piauí1380.004%
Rio de Janeiro1270.001%
Rio Grande do Norte1120.003%
Paraíba800.002%
Amazonas670.002%
Goiás530.001%
Bahia500.000%
Distrito Federal400.001%
Acre390.005%
Espírito Santo320.001%
Alagoas290.001%
Minas Gerais270.000%
Tocantins260.002%
Paraná180.000%
Rondônia180.001%
Mato Grosso160.000%

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

About the name Aurinete

The ending -inete appears in names such as Claudinete and Marinete, which the Morfemário (morpheme list) of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists under the element -ete, from French -ette, which comes from Latin -eta, a diminutive affix. The origin of Aurinete as a whole is uncertain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,426 people named Aurinete, with a median age of 48; most were born in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Ceará.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Aurinete · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Aurinete

What does the name Aurinete mean?

The meaning of Aurinete 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 Aurinete in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,426 people with the first name Aurinete, which ranks it number 4,504 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Aurinete is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 2,407 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Aurinete most common?

Proportionally, in Ceará: 0.006% of the state's population is named Aurinete (534 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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