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Meaning of the nameEitor

Eitor is a spelling of the name Heitor, which means “holding fast”.

Meaning

“holding fast”

Meaning of the name Heitor, of which Eitor is a spelling.

Source: Behind the Name: Hector · Wiktionary: Hector

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People (2022)
16,533
Rank in Brazil
#1,206
Median age
4 years
2010 Census
4,732
people

Eitor in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Eitor, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022 (7,998 people).

194 women 16,339 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 Eitor is most common

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

  1. Acre 0.016%
  2. Mato Grosso 0.015%
  3. Tocantins 0.015%
  4. Rondônia 0.014%
  5. Goiás 0.014%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo2,4550.006%
Minas Gerais1,5600.008%
Bahia1,2240.009%
Rio de Janeiro1,1700.007%
Pernambuco1,0780.012%
Pará1,0370.013%
Goiás9890.014%
Paraná8280.007%
Maranhão6840.010%
Mato Grosso5420.015%
Rio Grande do Sul5330.005%
Santa Catarina5170.007%
Ceará4730.005%
Espírito Santo4260.011%
Amazonas3750.010%
Distrito Federal3550.013%
Paraíba3190.008%
Rio Grande do Norte2900.009%
Mato Grosso do Sul2520.009%
Alagoas2510.008%
Piauí2400.007%
Rondônia2240.014%
Tocantins2230.015%
Sergipe1860.008%
Acre1290.016%
Amapá1000.014%
Roraima730.012%

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

The spelling Eitor

It loses the initial H; the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Eitor among the spelling variants of Heitor.

About the name Heitor

Behind the Name gives Heitor as the Portuguese form of Hector, the Latinized form of Greek Héktōr, derived from a word meaning 'holding fast'. Wiktionary links that word to the Greek verb ékhō, 'to have, to hold', and also records Hector as the Trojan hero of the Iliad in Greek mythology. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 297,607 people named Heitor, with a median age of 4. The name grew a great deal among people born from 2010 on and, proportionally, is most common in Espírito Santo.

Other spellings of Heitor

SpellingPeople (2022)
Heitor297,607
Eitor16,533

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Hector · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Hector · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: Heitor · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  4. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Heitor · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Eitor

What does the name Eitor mean?

Eitor means “holding fast”, according to Behind the Name and Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Heitor, of which Eitor is a spelling.

How many people are named Eitor in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 16,533 people with the first name Eitor, which ranks it number 1,206 among the country's names. The largest group was born in 2020 to 2022.

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

Eitor is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 194 women and 16,339 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Eitor?

Eitor is a name of Greek origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Eitor most common?

Proportionally, in Acre: 0.016% of the state's population is named Eitor (129 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Eitor?

Heitor. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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