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Meaning of the nameElisete

Elisete is a female name linked to the French Elisette, a diminutive of Elise and Elisa, which are short forms of Elisabete.

Meaning

“diminutive of Elisa or Elise, short forms of Elisabete, from the Hebrew 'my God is an oath'”

Source: Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Elizete · Behind the Name: Elisa · Behind the Name: Elise · Behind the Name: Elizabeth

People (2022)
19,984
Rank in Brazil
#1,071
Median age
52 years
2010 Census
21,855
people

Elisete in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Elisete, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (6,452 people).

19,903 women 81 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 Elisete is most common

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

  1. Rio Grande do Sul 0.037%
  2. Santa Catarina 0.025%
  3. Paraná 0.013%
  4. São Paulo 0.011%
  5. Rio de Janeiro 0.010%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo5,0490.011%
Rio Grande do Sul3,9700.037%
Santa Catarina1,9250.025%
Rio de Janeiro1,5710.010%
Paraná1,5340.013%
Minas Gerais1,3340.007%
Bahia1,1260.008%
Goiás4290.006%
Pernambuco3110.003%
Maranhão2990.004%
Pará2900.004%
Espírito Santo2870.008%
Piauí2550.008%
Ceará2300.003%
Mato Grosso2300.006%
Distrito Federal1900.007%
Mato Grosso do Sul1760.006%
Paraíba1680.004%
Rondônia1350.009%
Alagoas1320.004%
Amazonas710.002%
Rio Grande do Norte710.002%
Tocantins600.004%
Sergipe520.002%
Acre330.004%
Amapá290.004%
Roraima270.004%

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

About the name Elisete

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Elisete as a spelling variant of Elizete, analyzes the name as Eli(z)- + -ete and cites Machado (1981): from the French Elisette, a diminutive of Elise, Elisa. Behind the Name gives Elisa and Elise as short forms of Elisabeth, from the Hebrew ʾElishevaʿ, 'my God is an oath'. The ending -ete comes from the French -ette, from the Latin diminutive -eta, according to the Morfemário of the same dictionary, which lists Elisete among the traditional names with this ending. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 19,984 people named Elisete, with a median age of 52; the name is almost always female, most were born in the 1960s and 1970s, and proportionally it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Elizete · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Elisa · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Elise · behindthename.com · meaning
  4. Behind the Name: Elizabeth · behindthename.com · meaning
  5. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-ete) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Elisete

What does the name Elisete mean?

Elisete means “diminutive of Elisa or Elise, short forms of Elisabete, from the Hebrew 'my God is an oath'”, according to Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Elisete in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 19,984 people with the first name Elisete, which ranks it number 1,071 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

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

Elisete is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 19,903 women and 81 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Elisete?

Elisete is a name of French and Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Elisete most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.037% of the state's population is named Elisete (3,970 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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