Skip to content
BrazilNames BrazilNames

Meaning of the nameEdnardo

Ednardo is a male name of uncertain origin, recorded in Brazil since the 1940s and most frequent among people born in the 1980s.

Meaning

The meaning of Ednardo 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)
2,556
Rank in Brazil
#4,354
Median age
39 years
2010 Census
2,988
people

Ednardo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Ednardo, 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 (893 people).

0 women 2,545 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 Ednardo is most common

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

  1. Ceará 0.018%
  2. Minas Gerais 0.001%
  3. Rio de Janeiro 0.001%
  4. São Paulo 0.000%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Ceará1,6060.018%
São Paulo1820.000%
Minas Gerais1670.001%
Rio de Janeiro1160.001%
Rio Grande do Norte790.002%
Piauí720.002%
Goiás430.001%
Pernambuco350.000%
Distrito Federal320.001%
Rio Grande do Sul280.000%
Maranhão260.000%
Bahia210.000%
Espírito Santo190.001%
Pará180.000%
Amazonas150.000%

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

About the name Ednardo

The origin of Ednardo is uncertain. Names with a similar beginning, such as Edna, Ednaldo and Eduardo, appear in the Morfemário (morpheme list) of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) under the element Ed-, from Anglo-Saxon ead, 'wealth, riches'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,556 people named Ednardo, with a median age of 39. The name is almost always male, and the most common decade of birth is the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Ceará.

Sources

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

Questions about the name Ednardo

What does the name Ednardo mean?

The meaning of Ednardo 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 Ednardo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,556 people with the first name Ednardo, which ranks it number 4,354 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Ednardo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 2,545 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Ednardo most common?

Proportionally, in Ceará: 0.018% of the state's population is named Ednardo (1,606 people), according to the 2022 Census.

Spotted a mistake? Report a correction for Ednardo with a source. See the methodology.