Meaning of the nameCícero

Male
Latin origin
Cí-ce-ro

Cícero is a male name of Latin origin, linked to the Latin word cicer, 'chickpea'.

Meaning

“chickpea”

Source: Behind the Name: Cicero · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cícero

People (2022): 217,260
Rank in Brazil: #148
Median age: 48 years
2010 Census: 248,627; people

Cícero in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Cícero, 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 (52,754 people).

773 women 216,487 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 Cícero is most common

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

Alagoas 0.806%
Ceará 0.490%
Pernambuco 0.386%
Paraíba 0.259%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.138%

All states

State	People	% of population
Ceará	43,125	0.490%
São Paulo	39,095	0.088%
Pernambuco	34,972	0.386%
Alagoas	25,223	0.806%
Paraíba	10,274	0.259%
Bahia	7,186	0.051%
Minas Gerais	6,087	0.030%
Maranhão	5,905	0.087%
Paraná	5,401	0.047%
Rio de Janeiro	4,913	0.031%
Goiás	4,611	0.065%
Rio Grande do Norte	4,546	0.138%
Piauí	4,247	0.130%
Pará	3,691	0.046%
Mato Grosso	2,982	0.082%
Mato Grosso do Sul	2,890	0.105%
Sergipe	2,623	0.119%
Distrito Federal	1,854	0.066%
Tocantins	1,778	0.118%
Santa Catarina	1,433	0.019%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,276	0.012%
Rondônia	962	0.061%
Espírito Santo	765	0.020%
Amazonas	683	0.017%
Roraima	401	0.063%
Acre	193	0.023%
Amapá	144	0.020%

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

About the name Cícero

Cícero comes from the Latin Cicero, a Roman cognomen that Behind the Name derives from the Latin word cicer, 'chickpea'. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), gives the origin as the learned Latin Cĭcĕro and points to the same link with the noun cicer. The form with an acute accent, Cícero, is the one Wiktionary records for Portuguese. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 217,260 people named Cícero, with a median age of 48. The name is almost always male, peaked among people born in the 1970s and, proportionally, is most common in Alagoas.

Sources

Behind the Name: Cicero · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cícero · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
Wiktionary: Cícero · en.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Cícero

What does the name Cícero mean?

Cícero means “chickpea”, according to Behind the Name and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Cícero in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 217,260 people with the first name Cícero, which ranks it number 148 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

Is Cícero a boy's or a girl's name?

Cícero is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 773 women and 216,487 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Cícero?

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

In which Brazilian state is Cícero most common?

Proportionally, in Alagoas: 0.806% of the state's population is named Cícero (25,223 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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