Meaning of the nameEdivaldo

Male
Germanic origin
E-di-val-do

Edivaldo is a masculine name, a variant of Edvaldo, a Germanic name that Wiktionary explains as 'power of wealth'.

Meaning

“variant of Edvaldo, 'power of wealth'”

People (2022): 70,200
Rank in Brazil: #428
Median age: 48 years
2010 Census: 81,730; people

Edivaldo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Edivaldo, 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 (20,335 people).

203 women 69,997 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 Edivaldo is most common

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

Sergipe 0.071%
Bahia 0.071%
Pará 0.070%
Piauí 0.059%
Rondônia 0.057%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	13,809	0.031%
Bahia	9,973	0.071%
Pará	5,646	0.070%
Minas Gerais	5,003	0.024%
Pernambuco	4,473	0.049%
Maranhão	3,793	0.056%
Paraná	3,355	0.029%
Rio de Janeiro	2,659	0.017%
Goiás	2,546	0.036%
Piauí	1,925	0.059%
Mato Grosso	1,868	0.051%
Sergipe	1,561	0.071%
Paraíba	1,512	0.038%
Alagoas	1,453	0.047%
Espírito Santo	1,378	0.036%
Ceará	1,242	0.014%
Mato Grosso do Sul	1,131	0.041%
Amazonas	1,047	0.027%
Santa Catarina	994	0.013%
Rio Grande do Norte	929	0.028%
Rondônia	901	0.057%
Distrito Federal	893	0.032%
Tocantins	823	0.055%
Amapá	404	0.055%
Rio Grande do Sul	398	0.004%
Acre	299	0.036%
Roraima	185	0.029%

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

About the name Edivaldo

Wiktionary lists Edivaldo as a variant of Edvaldo and explains the latter as a Germanic name meaning 'power of wealth', from the elements for 'wealth' and 'power, authority'. Behind the Name allows two hypotheses for Edvaldo: a Portuguese form of Old English Eadwald, or a creation with the beginning Ed- and the ending -valdo, from the Germanic element walt, 'power'. The Morfemário of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil links Ed-, Edi- to Anglo-Saxon ead, 'wealth, goods', and observes that the i or e after the d follows Portuguese pronunciation. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 70,200 people named Edivaldo, with a median age of 48. Proportionally, the name is most common in Sergipe.

Sources

Wiktionary: Edvaldo · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: Edivaldo · en.wiktionary.org · spelling
Behind the Name: Edvaldo · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Edivaldo

What does the name Edivaldo mean?

Edivaldo means “variant of Edvaldo, 'power of wealth'”, according to Wiktionary.

How many people are named Edivaldo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 70,200 people with the first name Edivaldo, which ranks it number 428 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Edivaldo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 203 women and 69,997 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Edivaldo?

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

In which Brazilian state is Edivaldo most common?

Proportionally, in Sergipe: 0.071% of the state's population is named Edivaldo (1,561 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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