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Meaning of the nameEdicleide

Edicleide is a female name of uncertain origin, ending in -cleide, recorded mostly among women born in the 1980s.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,884 people named Edicleide, the 5,303rd most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 38, and the largest group was born in the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Paraíba.

Meaning

The meaning of Edicleide is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,884
Rank in Brazil
#5,303
Median age
38 years
2010 Census
1,890
people

Edicleide in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Edicleide, 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 (863 people).

1,847 women 37 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 Edicleide is most common

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

  1. Paraíba 0.006%
  2. Sergipe 0.005%
  3. Rio Grande do Norte 0.004%
  4. Pernambuco 0.003%
  5. Bahia 0.003%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Bahia3540.003%
Pernambuco3040.003%
São Paulo2700.001%
Paraíba2370.006%
Rio Grande do Norte1250.004%
Sergipe1120.005%
Alagoas880.003%
Rio de Janeiro620.000%
Pará620.001%
Ceará450.001%
Minas Gerais390.000%
Goiás260.000%
Distrito Federal240.001%
Paraná210.000%

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

About the name Edicleide

The origin of Edicleide is uncertain, and the name has no meaning known with confidence. The Morfemário of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists many Brazilian names ending in -cleide, such as Jacicleide, Maricleide and Rosicleide, and records Edi- among the forms of the formative Ed-, from Anglo-Saxon ead, 'wealth, goods', found in Edna and Eduardo. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,884 people named Edicleide, almost always women. Most were born in the 1970s and 1980s, and, proportionally, the name is most common in Paraíba.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Edicleide

What does the name Edicleide mean?

The meaning of Edicleide is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Edicleide in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,884 people with the first name Edicleide, which ranks it number 5,303 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Edicleide is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,847 women and 37 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Edicleide most common?

Proportionally, in Paraíba: 0.006% of the state's population is named Edicleide (237 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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