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Meaning of the nameGessiane

Gessiane is a spelling of the name Gesiane.

Meaning

The meaning of Gessiane 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)
2,571
Rank in Brazil
#4,339
Median age
27 years
2010 Census
2,640
people

Gessiane in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Gessiane, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (1,145 people).

2,553 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 Gessiane is most common

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

  1. Maranhão 0.005%
  2. Piauí 0.004%
  3. Ceará 0.003%
  4. Pará 0.002%
  5. Bahia 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Maranhão3550.005%
Bahia2640.002%
Ceará2440.003%
São Paulo2080.001%
Pará1940.002%
Minas Gerais1600.001%
Piauí1270.004%
Rio de Janeiro1200.001%
Pernambuco1160.001%
Goiás860.001%
Amazonas660.002%
Rio Grande do Norte590.002%
Paraná570.001%
Santa Catarina570.001%
Acre550.007%
Paraíba530.001%
Rio Grande do Sul490.001%
Alagoas460.002%
Espírito Santo440.001%
Tocantins420.003%
Rondônia370.002%
Mato Grosso330.001%
Distrito Federal310.001%
Sergipe300.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul150.001%
Roraima150.002%

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

The spelling Gessiane

Spelling with SS, which keeps the S sound; proportionally, it is most common in Maranhão.

About the name Gesiane

The origin of Gesiane is uncertain. The ending -iane appears in Brazilian names such as Cristiane and, according to the morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), may be a fragment of names like these; the same morpheme list cites Gessiane among the Brazilian names with this formative, and the element -ane comes from the French -anne. Gessiane is the variant with SS. The name is almost always female and is concentrated in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,011 people named Gesiane, with a median age of 31.

Other spellings of Gesiane

SpellingPeople (2022)
Gesiane4,011
Gessiane2,571

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-iane, -ane) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Gessiane

What does the name Gessiane mean?

The meaning of Gessiane 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 Gessiane in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,571 people with the first name Gessiane, which ranks it number 4,339 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Gessiane is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 2,553 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Gessiane most common?

Proportionally, in Maranhão: 0.005% of the state's population is named Gessiane (355 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Gessiane?

Gesiane. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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