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Meaning of the nameCasia

Casia is a spelling of the name Cássia.

Meaning

The meaning of Casia 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)
2,300
Rank in Brazil
#4,650
Median age
33 years
2010 Census
3,310
people

Casia in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Casia, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (620 people).

2,287 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 Casia is most common

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

  1. Pará 0.002%
  2. Goiás 0.002%
  3. Bahia 0.001%
  4. Pernambuco 0.001%
  5. Minas Gerais 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo3850.001%
Minas Gerais2480.001%
Bahia1880.001%
Rio de Janeiro1770.001%
Pará1450.002%
Paraná1230.001%
Pernambuco1140.001%
Goiás1140.002%
Rio Grande do Sul1110.001%
Maranhão790.001%
Santa Catarina750.001%
Ceará670.001%
Mato Grosso650.002%
Espírito Santo490.001%
Amazonas470.001%
Rondônia430.003%
Rio Grande do Norte390.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul320.001%
Piauí310.001%
Distrito Federal310.001%
Alagoas260.001%
Amapá230.003%
Sergipe190.001%
Tocantins190.001%
Acre180.002%
Roraima170.003%
Paraíba150.000%

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

The spelling Casia

It is written with a single S and no accent, closer to the spelling Cácia that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil gives as the form of origin; it is the least recorded of the three.

About the name Cássia

Behind the Name gives Cássia as the Portuguese form of Cassia, the feminine of Cassius, a Roman family name that perhaps comes from Latin cassus, 'empty, vain'; the page treats this origin as uncertain, while Wiktionary links Cassius to cassus without reservation. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil presents Cássia as a variant of Cácia, which, according to Machado (1981), comes from Latin Catia. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 64,000 people named Cássia, with a median age of 36. Proportionally, the name is most common in Minas Gerais.

Other spellings of Cássia

SpellingPeople (2022)
Cássia64,000
Kassia11,064
Casia2,300

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Cassia · behindthename.com · origin
  2. Behind the Name: Cassius · behindthename.com · origin
  3. Wiktionary: Cassius · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cássia · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  5. Wiktionary: Cássia · en.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Casia

What does the name Casia mean?

The meaning of Casia 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 Casia in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,300 people with the first name Casia, which ranks it number 4,650 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Casia is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 2,287 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Casia?

Casia is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Casia most common?

Proportionally, in Pará: 0.002% of the state's population is named Casia (145 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Casia?

Cássia and Kassia. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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