Skip to content
BrazilNames BrazilNames

Meaning of the nameIarlei

Iarlei is a spelling of the name Iarley.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,142 people named Iarlei, the 7,561st most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 14, and the largest group was born in the 2000s. Proportionally, it is most common in Ceará.

Meaning

The meaning of Iarlei 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)
1,142
Rank in Brazil
#7,561
Median age
14 years
2010 Census
1,732
people

Iarlei in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Iarlei, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (570 people).

29 women 1,113 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 Iarlei is most common

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

  1. Ceará 0.003%
  2. Pará 0.002%
  3. Bahia 0.001%
  4. Rio Grande do Sul 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Ceará2260.003%
Bahia2000.001%
Pará1730.002%
Rio Grande do Sul1100.001%
Minas Gerais420.000%
São Paulo390.000%
Paraíba350.001%
Espírito Santo340.001%
Piauí340.001%
Maranhão330.001%
Rio de Janeiro270.000%
Pernambuco260.000%
Santa Catarina260.000%
Goiás230.000%
Amazonas160.000%
Alagoas160.001%
Sergipe150.001%

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

The spelling Iarlei

Swaps the ending -ley for -lei, keeping the initial I; the Dictionary has Iarlei as its own entry.

About the name Iarley

The origin of the spelling Iarley is uncertain. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records Iarley, Iarlei, Yarlei and Yarley as spelling variants of the same name, and also lists Hiarlei, Hiarley, Iarlley and Yarlley. The spellings differ in the first letter, I or Y, and in the ending, -lei or -ley. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 3,475 people named Iarley, the most common spelling in the group; the name is almost always male, and most were born in the 2000s and 2010s. Proportionally, it is most common in Ceará.

Other spellings of Iarley

SpellingPeople (2022)
Iarley3,475
Yarlei1,179
Iarlei1,142
Yarley1,118

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Iarlei · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Yarlei · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Iarlei

What does the name Iarlei mean?

The meaning of Iarlei 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 Iarlei in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,142 people with the first name Iarlei, which ranks it number 7,561 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

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

Iarlei is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 29 women and 1,113 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Iarlei most common?

Proportionally, in Ceará: 0.003% of the state's population is named Iarlei (226 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Iarlei?

Iarley, Yarlei and Yarley. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

Spotted a mistake? Report a correction for Iarlei with a source. See the methodology.