Meaning of the nameFrancinaldo

Male
Germanic origin
Fran-ci-nal-do

Francinaldo is a Brazilian male name made of Franci- and -naldo, two name-forming elements of Germanic origin documented by the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil).

Meaning

The meaning of Francinaldo 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): 18,882
Rank in Brazil: #1,105
Median age: 38 years
2010 Census: 20,947; people

Francinaldo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Francinaldo, 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 (7,030 people).

85 women 18,797 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 Francinaldo is most common

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

Paraíba 0.059%
Maranhão 0.054%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.053%
Piauí 0.041%
Pará 0.031%

All states

State	People	% of population
Maranhão	3,630	0.054%
Pará	2,492	0.031%
Paraíba	2,362	0.059%
Rio Grande do Norte	1,738	0.053%
São Paulo	1,381	0.003%
Piauí	1,326	0.041%
Ceará	1,173	0.013%
Pernambuco	981	0.011%
Amazonas	804	0.020%
Goiás	607	0.009%
Bahia	398	0.003%
Distrito Federal	312	0.011%
Rio de Janeiro	260	0.002%
Mato Grosso	227	0.006%
Tocantins	195	0.013%
Minas Gerais	192	0.001%
Amapá	182	0.025%
Roraima	141	0.022%
Santa Catarina	93	0.001%
Rondônia	87	0.006%
Paraná	81	0.001%
Acre	63	0.008%
Alagoas	40	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	37	0.001%
Sergipe	31	0.001%
Espírito Santo	26	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	23	0.000%

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

About the name Francinaldo

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil analyzes Francinaldo as Franci- + -naldo. According to the same dictionary's morpheme list, Franci- comes from the Germanic frank, 'free' or 'Frank', and appears in names such as Franciele and Francilene; -naldo belongs to the group -aldo, -baldo, -naldo, -valdo, for which more than one Germanic origin has been proposed, such as walt/wald, 'the one who rules', or hard, 'strong', and it appears in Edinaldo, Reginaldo and Reinaldo. The meaning of the whole name is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 18,882 people named Francinaldo, most of them born in the 1970s and 1980s. Proportionally, the name is most common in Paraíba.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Francinaldo · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Francinaldo

What does the name Francinaldo mean?

The meaning of Francinaldo 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 Francinaldo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 18,882 people with the first name Francinaldo, which ranks it number 1,105 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Francinaldo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 85 women and 18,797 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Francinaldo?

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

In which Brazilian state is Francinaldo most common?

Proportionally, in Paraíba: 0.059% of the state's population is named Francinaldo (2,362 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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