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Meaning of the nameJuciano

Juciano is a Brazilian male name formed from Juci- and the suffix -ano, whose origin is not known for certain.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,172 people named Juciano, the 7,429th most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 36, and the largest group was born in the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Pernambuco.

Meaning

The meaning of Juciano 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)
1,172
Rank in Brazil
#7,429
Median age
36 years
2010 Census
1,345
people

Juciano in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Juciano, 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 (526 people).

0 women 1,163 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 Juciano is most common

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

  1. Pernambuco 0.002%
  2. Bahia 0.001%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Pernambuco1550.002%
Bahia1370.001%
São Paulo990.000%
Ceará910.001%
Minas Gerais900.000%
Santa Catarina820.001%
Paraíba620.002%
Rio Grande do Norte560.002%
Rio Grande do Sul420.000%
Alagoas400.001%
Paraná360.000%
Maranhão340.001%
Pará280.000%
Piauí280.001%
Rio de Janeiro270.000%
Amazonas270.001%
Espírito Santo240.001%
Mato Grosso210.001%
Goiás200.000%
Acre170.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul150.001%
Sergipe150.001%

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

About the name Juciano

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records Juciano with the formation Juci- + -ano and the etymology "brasileirismo" (a Brazilianism). The final element -ano comes from Latin -anu and means "originating from" or "belonging to", as in Adriano and Mariano. For Juci-, the Morfemário says the origin is uncertain and that it may be a fragment of Juçara; for this reason the meaning of the name as a whole is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,172 people named Juciano, almost always men, and the decade with the most records was the 1980s, with 526 people.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Juciano · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Juciano

What does the name Juciano mean?

The meaning of Juciano 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 Juciano in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,172 people with the first name Juciano, which ranks it number 7,429 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

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

Juciano is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 1,163 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Juciano most common?

Proportionally, in Pernambuco: 0.002% of the state's population is named Juciano (155 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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