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Meaning of the nameHelida

Helida is a spelling of the name Elida.

Meaning

The meaning of Helida 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)
3,469
Rank in Brazil
#3,521
Median age
38 years
2010 Census
3,271
people

Helida in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Helida, 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 (1,036 people).

3,458 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 Helida is most common

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

  1. Espírito Santo 0.004%
  2. Minas Gerais 0.004%
  3. Goiás 0.003%
  4. Pernambuco 0.003%
  5. Maranhão 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Minas Gerais7280.004%
São Paulo4480.001%
Rio de Janeiro3080.002%
Goiás2360.003%
Pernambuco2250.003%
Maranhão1560.002%
Espírito Santo1490.004%
Bahia1270.001%
Pará1200.002%
Ceará1130.001%
Paraná1010.001%
Rio Grande do Sul900.001%
Mato Grosso890.002%
Paraíba840.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul840.003%
Distrito Federal760.003%
Piauí690.002%
Santa Catarina550.001%
Rio Grande do Norte530.002%
Amazonas470.001%
Tocantins260.002%
Alagoas230.001%
Rondônia220.001%
Amapá170.002%

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

The spelling Helida

It adds an initial H, a spelling that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists as a variant of Elida; the decade with the most records is also the 1980s.

About the name Elida

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Elyda, Helida and Helyda as spelling variants of Elida and records Élida, with an accent, as a Galician variant. Wiktionary lists Elida as a female given name in English and in Albanian, and also as the name of some places in the United States. The origin of the name is uncertain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 16,962 people named Elida, with a median age of 37. The name is almost always female.

Other spellings of Elida

SpellingPeople (2022)
Elida16,962
Helida3,469

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Elida · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Wiktionary: Elida · en.wiktionary.org · usage

Questions about the name Helida

What does the name Helida mean?

The meaning of Helida 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 Helida in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,469 people with the first name Helida, which ranks it number 3,521 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Helida is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 3,458 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Helida most common?

Proportionally, in Espírito Santo: 0.004% of the state's population is named Helida (149 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Helida?

Elida. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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