Meaning of the nameClaudiney

Claudiney is a spelling of the name Claudinei.

Meaning

The meaning of Claudiney 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): 4,253
Rank in Brazil: #3,072
Median age: 43 years
2010 Census: 3,095; people

Claudiney in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Claudiney, 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 (1,672 people).

53 women 4,200 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 Claudiney is most common

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

Minas Gerais 0.007%
Mato Grosso 0.005%
Mato Grosso do Sul 0.005%
Paraná 0.004%
Amazonas 0.003%

All states

State	People	% of population
Minas Gerais	1,354	0.007%
São Paulo	887	0.002%
Paraná	408	0.004%
Mato Grosso	190	0.005%
Goiás	189	0.003%
Rio de Janeiro	164	0.001%
Bahia	145	0.001%
Pará	138	0.002%
Amazonas	125	0.003%
Mato Grosso do Sul	123	0.005%
Maranhão	77	0.001%
Santa Catarina	70	0.001%
Espírito Santo	64	0.002%
Rondônia	64	0.004%
Ceará	57	0.001%
Distrito Federal	38	0.001%
Tocantins	24	0.002%
Piauí	23	0.001%
Pernambuco	22	0.000%
Sergipe	20	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	16	0.000%
Amapá	16	0.002%

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

The spelling Claudiney

It swaps the final I for Y, as in other names ending in -ney; the Dicionário lists it as a spelling variant of Claudinei.

About the name Claudinei

Behind the Name describes Claudinei as an elaborated form of Cláudio, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil analyzes the formation as Claudi- + -nei. The Morfemário of the same dictionary gives -nei/-ney as coming from French Ney, which would be a variant of German neu, 'new', and lists Claudiney among the Brazilian names with this ending. Cláudio comes from Latin Claudius, a Roman family name that Behind the Name links only 'possibly' to claudus, 'lame', and so the meaning of the name is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 67,181 people named Claudinei, with a peak among those born in the 1970s. Proportionally, the name is most common in Paraná.

Other spellings of Claudinei

Spelling	People (2022)
Claudinei	67,181
Claudiney	4,253

Sources

Behind the Name: Claudinei · behindthename.com · origin
Behind the Name: Claudius · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Claudinei · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Wiktionary: Cláudio · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-nei, -ney) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Claudiney

What does the name Claudiney mean?

The meaning of Claudiney 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 Claudiney in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,253 people with the first name Claudiney, which ranks it number 3,072 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Claudiney is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 53 women and 4,200 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Claudiney?

Claudiney is a name of Latin and French origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Claudiney most common?

Proportionally, in Minas Gerais: 0.007% of the state's population is named Claudiney (1,354 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Claudiney?

Claudinei. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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