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Meaning of the nameCailane

Cailane is a spelling of the name Kailane.

Meaning

The meaning of Cailane 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)
5,704
Rank in Brazil
#2,502
Median age
18 years
2010 Census
9,651
people

Cailane in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Cailane, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (4,432 people).

5,652 women 52 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 Cailane is most common

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

  1. Bahia 0.014%
  2. Espírito Santo 0.004%
  3. Ceará 0.004%
  4. Rio de Janeiro 0.004%
  5. Pernambuco 0.003%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Bahia2,0200.014%
Rio de Janeiro5740.004%
São Paulo5190.001%
Ceará3350.004%
Pernambuco3120.003%
Pará2700.003%
Minas Gerais2410.001%
Maranhão1990.003%
Rio Grande do Sul1590.002%
Espírito Santo1510.004%
Santa Catarina1160.002%
Goiás1080.002%
Amazonas920.002%
Acre790.010%
Alagoas770.003%
Piauí680.002%
Paraná600.001%
Paraíba510.001%
Rio Grande do Norte460.001%
Tocantins420.003%
Sergipe390.002%
Rondônia380.002%
Distrito Federal370.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul210.001%
Mato Grosso200.001%
Amapá160.002%

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

The spelling Cailane

It swaps the initial K for C, the spelling closest to traditional Portuguese writing; proportionally, it is also most common in Bahia.

About the name Kailane

The origin of the name Kailane is uncertain. It ends in -lane, an element that the morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records in Brazilian names such as Edilane, Gislane and Marilane, and whose origin the dictionary itself also considers uncertain: perhaps English Lanie, perhaps French -ane with a linking -l-. The same dictionary records Kailine with the spellings Cailine and Kayline, the same alternation between K and C at the start and between I and Y that appears in this group. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 24,358 people named Kailane, most of them born in the 2000s. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, is most common in Bahia.

Other spellings of Kailane

SpellingPeople (2022)
Kailane24,358
Kaylane15,125
Cailane5,704
Kayllane2,545

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-lane) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Kailine · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Cailane

What does the name Cailane mean?

The meaning of Cailane 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 Cailane in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 5,704 people with the first name Cailane, which ranks it number 2,502 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

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

Cailane is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 5,652 women and 52 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Cailane most common?

Proportionally, in Bahia: 0.014% of the state's population is named Cailane (2,020 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Cailane?

Kailane, Kaylane and Kayllane. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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