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Meaning of the nameCasemiro

Casemiro is a male name, a variant of Casimiro, the Portuguese form of the Slavic name Kazimierz, whose second element is mir, 'peace'.

Meaning

“variant of Casimiro, a Slavic name (Kazimierz) whose second element means 'peace'”

Source: Behind the Name: Casimir · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Casimiro · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-MIR)

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People (2022)
1,738
Rank in Brazil
#5,639
Median age
65 years
2010 Census
2,027
people

Casemiro in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Casemiro, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (441 people).

0 women 1,732 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 Casemiro is most common

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

  1. Paraná 0.004%
  2. Rio Grande do Sul 0.002%
  3. Pará 0.002%
  4. Santa Catarina 0.002%
  5. Rio de Janeiro 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Paraná4400.004%
São Paulo2720.001%
Rio Grande do Sul2250.002%
Pará1530.002%
Santa Catarina1460.002%
Rio de Janeiro1320.001%
Bahia620.000%
Maranhão500.001%
Amazonas390.001%
Ceará370.000%
Minas Gerais310.000%
Piauí210.001%
Goiás190.000%
Mato Grosso190.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul180.001%

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

About the name Casemiro

Casemiro is listed in Wiktionary as a variant of Casimiro, and Casimiro is the Portuguese form of Casimir, from the Polish Kazimierz. Behind the Name explains the name through the Slavic elements kaziti, 'to destroy', and mirŭ, 'peace, world'; the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), links the first element to kazati, 'to teach, to preach', and reads mir as 'peace'. The sources differ on the first element, but agree that the second is 'peace'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,738 people named Casemiro, with a median age of 65, almost always male. The spelling Cazemiro appears as a spelling variant.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Casemiro · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Wiktionary: Casimiro · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  3. Behind the Name: Casimir · behindthename.com · meaning
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Casimiro · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
  5. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Casemiro · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  6. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-MIR) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Casemiro

What does the name Casemiro mean?

Casemiro means “variant of Casimiro, a Slavic name (Kazimierz) whose second element means 'peace'”, according to Behind the Name and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Casemiro in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,738 people with the first name Casemiro, which ranks it number 5,639 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

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

Casemiro is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 1,732 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Casemiro?

Casemiro is a name of Slavic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Casemiro most common?

Proportionally, in Paraná: 0.004% of the state's population is named Casemiro (440 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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