Meaning of the nameDarcio

Male
Latin origin
Dar-ci-o

Darcio is a masculine name that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil links, with a caveat, to Dercio and to the Latin name Decius.

Meaning

The meaning of Darcio 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): 3,400
Rank in Brazil: #3,570
Median age: 44 years
2010 Census: 3,684; people

Darcio in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Darcio, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (911 people).

0 women 3,390 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 Darcio is most common

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

Piauí 0.003%
São Paulo 0.003%
Santa Catarina 0.002%
Minas Gerais 0.002%
Ceará 0.001%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	1,343	0.003%
Minas Gerais	411	0.002%
Santa Catarina	172	0.002%
Bahia	138	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	117	0.001%
Paraná	115	0.001%
Ceará	108	0.001%
Pernambuco	107	0.001%
Piauí	103	0.003%
Rio de Janeiro	96	0.001%
Maranhão	96	0.001%
Pará	90	0.001%
Goiás	83	0.001%
Amazonas	49	0.001%
Paraíba	49	0.001%
Espírito Santo	48	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	48	0.002%
Distrito Federal	35	0.001%
Sergipe	34	0.002%
Alagoas	33	0.001%
Mato Grosso	30	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	25	0.001%
Tocantins	25	0.002%
Rondônia	17	0.001%

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

About the name Darcio

According to Machado (1981), cited in the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), Darcio must be linked to Dercio, which seems to be an alteration of Décio, from the Latin Decius. Behind the Name describes Decius as a Roman family name derived from an Oscan variant of the praenomen Decimus and gives no meaning. Because the link between Darcio and this chain is presented as probable, the meaning of the name is not given as certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 3,400 people named Darcio, almost always men, and most were born in the 1970s and 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Piauí.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Darcio · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Behind the Name: Decius · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Darcio

What does the name Darcio mean?

The meaning of Darcio 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 Darcio in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,400 people with the first name Darcio, which ranks it number 3,570 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Darcio is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 3,390 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Darcio?

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

In which Brazilian state is Darcio most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.003% of the state's population is named Darcio (103 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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