Meaning of the nameCauê

Male
Tupi origin
Cau-ê

Cauê is a spelling of the name Kauê, which means “Tupi name of the acauã, a bird of prey”.

Meaning

“Tupi name of the acauã, a bird of prey”

Meaning of the name Kauê, of which Cauê is a spelling.

Source: Wiktionary: Kauê · Wiktionary: kaûã (Old Tupi)

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People (2022): 34,574
Rank in Brazil: #743
Median age: 13 years
2010 Census: 26,526; people

Cauê in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Cauê, 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 (13,801 people).

315 women 34,259 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 Cauê is most common

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

Amapá 0.032%
São Paulo 0.028%
Santa Catarina 0.025%
Bahia 0.020%
Alagoas 0.018%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	12,552	0.028%
Bahia	2,751	0.020%
Rio de Janeiro	2,426	0.015%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,938	0.018%
Santa Catarina	1,914	0.025%
Paraná	1,612	0.014%
Minas Gerais	1,418	0.007%
Pará	1,401	0.017%
Pernambuco	1,293	0.014%
Ceará	1,255	0.014%
Goiás	672	0.010%
Amazonas	605	0.015%
Alagoas	567	0.018%
Paraíba	540	0.014%
Maranhão	526	0.008%
Distrito Federal	446	0.016%
Rio Grande do Norte	428	0.013%
Mato Grosso do Sul	336	0.012%
Mato Grosso	330	0.009%
Sergipe	320	0.015%
Piauí	312	0.010%
Espírito Santo	238	0.006%
Amapá	233	0.032%
Rondônia	148	0.009%
Tocantins	123	0.008%
Roraima	97	0.015%
Acre	93	0.011%

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

The spelling Cauê

It uses C, the letter of traditional Portuguese, in place of the K of Kauê.

About the name Kauê

Wiktionary records Kauê as a borrowing from Old Tupi kaûã and Cauê as a name of Tupi origin, a variant of Cauã. In Old Tupi, kaûã names the acauã (Herpetotheres cachinnans), a bird of prey; the origin of the word itself is unknown. It is a recent name: the great majority of people with this name were born in the 2000s and 2010s or later. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 65,321 people named Kauê, with a median age of 12. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Kauê among the spelling variants of Cauê.

Other spellings of Kauê

Spelling	People (2022)
Kauê	65,321
Cauê	34,574

Sources

Wiktionary: Kauê · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: Cauê · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: kaûã (Old Tupi) · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cauê · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Cauê

What does the name Cauê mean?

Cauê means “Tupi name of the acauã, a bird of prey”, according to Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Kauê, of which Cauê is a spelling.

How many people are named Cauê in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 34,574 people with the first name Cauê, which ranks it number 743 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Cauê a boy's or a girl's name?

Cauê is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 315 women and 34,259 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Cauê?

Cauê is a name of Tupi origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Cauê most common?

Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.032% of the state's population is named Cauê (233 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Cauê?

Kauê. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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