Meaning of the nameEdinaldo

Male
Germanic origin
E-di-nal-do

Edinaldo is a male name of Germanic origin, a variant of Ednaldo, which Wiktionary explains as 'the one who rules over his riches'.

Meaning

“the one who rules over his riches”

Source: Wiktionary: Ednaldo

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People (2022): 38,356
Rank in Brazil: #691
Median age: 43 years
2010 Census: 45,365; people

Edinaldo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Edinaldo, 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 (12,491 people).

131 women 38,225 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 Edinaldo is most common

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

Pará 0.053%
Amapá 0.048%
Paraíba 0.048%
Pernambuco 0.043%
Maranhão 0.042%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	6,023	0.014%
Pará	4,336	0.053%
Bahia	4,103	0.029%
Pernambuco	3,929	0.043%
Maranhão	2,809	0.042%
Paraíba	1,900	0.048%
Minas Gerais	1,653	0.008%
Rio de Janeiro	1,493	0.009%
Paraná	1,298	0.011%
Goiás	1,144	0.016%
Ceará	1,079	0.012%
Piauí	977	0.030%
Alagoas	972	0.031%
Sergipe	869	0.039%
Rio Grande do Norte	851	0.026%
Mato Grosso	766	0.021%
Amazonas	756	0.019%
Espírito Santo	499	0.013%
Distrito Federal	477	0.017%
Mato Grosso do Sul	438	0.016%
Santa Catarina	434	0.006%
Rondônia	425	0.027%
Amapá	354	0.048%
Tocantins	338	0.022%
Acre	158	0.019%
Roraima	152	0.024%
Rio Grande do Sul	123	0.001%

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

About the name Edinaldo

Wiktionary records Edinaldo as a variant of Ednaldo and traces Ednaldo to a Germanic name glossed as 'the one who rules over his riches', from Proto-Germanic *audaz, 'wealth', and *waldą, 'power', related to Edvaldo and Eduardo. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Edinaldo among the spelling variants of Ednaldo, and the Morfemário explains that the I between the D and the N follows Portuguese pronunciation, which has no silent D. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 38,356 people named Edinaldo, with a median age of 43. Most were born in the 1970s and 1980s and, proportionally, the name is most common in Pará.

Sources

Wiktionary: Ednaldo · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: Edinaldo · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (Ed-, -naldo) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Ednaldo · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Edinaldo

What does the name Edinaldo mean?

Edinaldo means “the one who rules over his riches”, according to Wiktionary.

How many people are named Edinaldo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 38,356 people with the first name Edinaldo, which ranks it number 691 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Edinaldo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 131 women and 38,225 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Edinaldo?

Edinaldo is a name of Germanic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Edinaldo most common?

Proportionally, in Pará: 0.053% of the state's population is named Edinaldo (4,336 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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