Meaning of the nameIranildo

Male
Germanic origin
I-ra-nil-do

Iranildo is a Brazilian masculine name ending in -nildo, a formative that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) links to the Germanic hild, 'battle'.

Meaning

The meaning of Iranildo 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): 10,650
Rank in Brazil: #1,633
Median age: 38 years
2010 Census: 12,389; people

Iranildo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Iranildo, 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 (2,844 people).

60 women 10,590 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 Iranildo is most common

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

Amapá 0.020%
Paraíba 0.018%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.017%
Pernambuco 0.016%
Ceará 0.015%

All states

State	People	% of population
Pernambuco	1,442	0.016%
Ceará	1,357	0.015%
Bahia	1,155	0.008%
Pará	1,109	0.014%
São Paulo	1,056	0.002%
Paraíba	728	0.018%
Rio Grande do Norte	562	0.017%
Maranhão	485	0.007%
Amazonas	365	0.009%
Rio de Janeiro	362	0.002%
Alagoas	332	0.011%
Piauí	310	0.010%
Minas Gerais	272	0.001%
Goiás	219	0.003%
Amapá	149	0.020%
Distrito Federal	110	0.004%
Mato Grosso	85	0.002%
Sergipe	84	0.004%
Espírito Santo	75	0.002%
Paraná	73	0.001%
Santa Catarina	59	0.001%
Rondônia	55	0.004%
Acre	52	0.006%
Tocantins	50	0.003%
Roraima	40	0.006%
Mato Grosso do Sul	39	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	25	0.000%

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

About the name Iranildo

Iranildo ends in -nildo, a variant of the formative -ildo that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil links to the Germanic hild/hilde, 'battle', and that perhaps derives from -gildo; the same dictionary cites Brazilian names such as Evanildo and Edenildo. The beginning resembles the given name Irani, which has no etymology in the dictionary, and the origin of Iranildo as a whole is uncertain. It is an almost always male name, most frequent among people born from 1970 to 1999. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 10,650 people named Iranildo, with a median age of 38.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-ildo) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Iranildo

What does the name Iranildo mean?

The meaning of Iranildo 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 Iranildo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 10,650 people with the first name Iranildo, which ranks it number 1,633 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Iranildo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 60 women and 10,590 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Iranildo?

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

In which Brazilian state is Iranildo most common?

Proportionally, in Amapá: 0.020% of the state's population is named Iranildo (149 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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