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Meaning of the nameGleydson

Gleydson is a spelling of the name Gleidson.

Meaning

The meaning of Gleydson 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)
4,057
Rank in Brazil
#3,168
Median age
27 years
2010 Census
2,448
people

Gleydson in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Gleydson, 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 (1,191 people).

0 women 4,040 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 Gleydson is most common

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

  1. Maranhão 0.009%
  2. Rio Grande do Norte 0.008%
  3. Pernambuco 0.006%
  4. Paraíba 0.006%
  5. Pará 0.004%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Maranhão5760.009%
Pernambuco5600.006%
Pará3510.004%
Minas Gerais3360.002%
Rio Grande do Norte2660.008%
São Paulo2410.001%
Paraíba2410.006%
Ceará2380.003%
Goiás1690.002%
Bahia1580.001%
Rio de Janeiro1540.001%
Piauí1260.004%
Espírito Santo1110.003%
Distrito Federal890.003%
Alagoas620.002%
Amazonas520.001%
Mato Grosso490.001%
Tocantins490.003%
Paraná460.000%
Santa Catarina330.000%
Sergipe330.002%
Amapá280.004%
Rondônia240.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul200.001%
Roraima200.003%
Rio Grande do Sul150.000%

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

The spelling Gleydson

Swaps the I for Y without changing the pronunciation, and appears in the dictionary as a spelling variant of Gleidson.

About the name Gleidson

The origin of the beginning of the name is uncertain; the ending -son is described in the morpheme list of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) as an English patronymic formative, 'son of', found in Brazilian names such as Claydson and Aldson. The same dictionary records Gleidison, Gleidsom, Gleydsom and Gleydson as spelling variants of Gleidson. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 14,627 people named Gleidson, with a median age of 30, almost always male. The name has the most records among people born in the 1980s.

Other spellings of Gleidson

SpellingPeople (2022)
Gleidson14,627
Gleydson4,057

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-son) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Gleidson · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Gleydson

What does the name Gleydson mean?

The meaning of Gleydson 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 Gleydson in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,057 people with the first name Gleydson, which ranks it number 3,168 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Gleydson is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 4,040 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Gleydson most common?

Proportionally, in Maranhão: 0.009% of the state's population is named Gleydson (576 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Gleydson?

Gleidson. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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