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Meaning of the nameEneide

Eneide is a Brazilian female name that matches the Italian name of Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid.

Meaning

The meaning of Eneide is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,904
Rank in Brazil
#5,271
Median age
60 years
2010 Census
2,373
people

Eneide in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Eneide, 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 (560 people).

1,889 women 0 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 Eneide is most common

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

  1. Pernambuco 0.002%
  2. Paraná 0.001%
  3. Bahia 0.001%
  4. São Paulo 0.001%
  5. Minas Gerais 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo4130.001%
Pernambuco1590.002%
Minas Gerais1570.001%
Bahia1380.001%
Paraná1350.001%
Rio de Janeiro1250.001%
Rio Grande do Sul940.001%
Rio Grande do Norte780.002%
Ceará740.001%
Paraíba640.002%
Santa Catarina540.001%
Pará520.001%
Goiás520.001%
Mato Grosso410.001%
Amazonas390.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul360.001%
Maranhão310.001%
Sergipe300.001%
Espírito Santo250.001%
Alagoas250.001%
Distrito Federal250.001%
Piauí190.001%

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

About the name Eneide

Wiktionary lists Eneide, in Italian, as the title of Virgil's Latin poem the Aeneid, and explains the form as a borrowing from Latin, derived from Aenēās (Aeneas) with the suffix -is. In Portuguese, Wiktionary gives Eneida the same Latin origin. The origin of Eneide as a personal name is uncertain, and its meaning is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,904 people named Eneide, with a median age of 60. The name is almost always recorded for women, most of them born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Eneyde as a spelling variant.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Eneide · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Wiktionary: Eneida · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  3. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Eneide · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Eneide

What does the name Eneide mean?

The meaning of Eneide is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Eneide in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,904 people with the first name Eneide, which ranks it number 5,271 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

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

Eneide is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,889 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Eneide most common?

Proportionally, in Pernambuco: 0.002% of the state's population is named Eneide (159 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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