Meaning of the nameGutemberg

Male
Germanic origin
Gu-tem-berg

Gutemberg is the Brazilian form, with M before B, of the German surname Gutenberg, used here as a male given name.

Meaning

The meaning of Gutemberg is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022): 7,379
Rank in Brazil: #2,099
Median age: 38 years
2010 Census: 7,360; people

Gutemberg in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Gutemberg, 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 (2,110 people).

33 women 7,346 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 Gutemberg is most common

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

Paraíba 0.014%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.010%
Pernambuco 0.010%
Bahia 0.008%
Distrito Federal 0.006%

All states

State	People	% of population
Bahia	1,065	0.008%
Rio de Janeiro	914	0.006%
Pernambuco	888	0.010%
São Paulo	765	0.002%
Minas Gerais	548	0.003%
Paraíba	536	0.014%
Ceará	514	0.006%
Rio Grande do Norte	328	0.010%
Maranhão	262	0.004%
Goiás	229	0.003%
Amazonas	201	0.005%
Distrito Federal	179	0.006%
Alagoas	164	0.005%
Pará	128	0.002%
Espírito Santo	99	0.003%
Piauí	91	0.003%
Sergipe	87	0.004%
Mato Grosso	77	0.002%
Tocantins	61	0.004%
Paraná	52	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	44	0.002%
Santa Catarina	38	0.001%
Roraima	33	0.005%
Rondônia	31	0.002%
Acre	20	0.002%

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

About the name Gutemberg

Gutemberg corresponds to the German surname Gutenberg, which Wiktionary analyzes, on the surface, as gut + -en- + Berg, with the etymology marked as incomplete. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) analyzes the Brazilian form as gutem + -berg and lists Gutenberg, Gutembergh, Guthemberg and Gutembergue among the spelling variants. The meaning of the name as a given name is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 7,379 people named Gutemberg, with a median age of 38. It is almost always a male name, with more records in the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Paraíba.

Sources

Wiktionary: Gutenberg · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Gutemberg · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Gutemberg

What does the name Gutemberg mean?

The meaning of Gutemberg is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Gutemberg in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 7,379 people with the first name Gutemberg, which ranks it number 2,099 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Gutemberg is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 33 women and 7,346 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Gutemberg?

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

In which Brazilian state is Gutemberg most common?

Proportionally, in Paraíba: 0.014% of the state's population is named Gutemberg (536 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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