Skip to content
BrazilNames BrazilNames

Meaning of the nameJeverson

Jeverson is a male name with the ending -erson, a formative that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil links to English first names such as Jefferson.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,634 people named Jeverson, the 4,267th most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 33, and the largest group was born in the 1990s. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Meaning

The meaning of Jeverson 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)
2,634
Rank in Brazil
#4,267
Median age
33 years
2010 Census
3,150
people

Jeverson in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Jeverson, 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 (960 people).

0 women 2,621 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 Jeverson is most common

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

  1. Rio Grande do Sul 0.004%
  2. Santa Catarina 0.004%
  3. Paraná 0.004%
  4. Mato Grosso 0.004%
  5. Goiás 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Rio Grande do Sul4500.004%
Paraná4470.004%
São Paulo3170.001%
Santa Catarina3020.004%
Minas Gerais2070.001%
Goiás1660.002%
Mato Grosso1310.004%
Bahia1190.001%
Pernambuco770.001%
Pará490.001%
Sergipe480.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul450.002%
Rio de Janeiro430.000%
Espírito Santo400.001%
Rondônia350.002%
Alagoas270.001%
Rio Grande do Norte210.001%
Paraíba180.001%
Distrito Federal160.001%
Amazonas150.000%

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

About the name Jeverson

The Morfemário of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) explains -erson as a probable clipping of English first names such as Jefferson, 'son of Jeff', and cites Jeferson among the traditional names and Deverson and Ueverson among the Brazilian names with this ending. Jeverson has its own entry, with Geverson, Geversom, Jeversom and Jheverson as spelling variants. The spelling with v is close to Jeferson, but no source describes it as a variant of it. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,634 people named Jeverson, with a median age of 33.

Sources

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

Questions about the name Jeverson

What does the name Jeverson mean?

The meaning of Jeverson 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 Jeverson in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,634 people with the first name Jeverson, which ranks it number 4,267 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

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

Jeverson is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 2,621 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Jeverson most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.004% of the state's population is named Jeverson (450 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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