Meaning of the nameJúnior

Male
Latin origin
Jú-ni-or

Júnior is a male name that comes from the Latin iūnior, 'younger', and began as a nickname for a son with the same name as his father.

Meaning

“'younger' (from the Latin iūnior)”

Source: Wiktionary: júnior · Behind the Name: Junior

People (2022): 87,633
Rank in Brazil: #354
Median age: 31 years
2010 Census: 112,652; people

Júnior in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Júnior, 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 (27,739 people).

497 women 87,136 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 Júnior is most common

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

Mato Grosso 0.082%
Mato Grosso do Sul 0.076%
Roraima 0.070%
Rondônia 0.070%
Acre 0.070%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	14,070	0.032%
Minas Gerais	11,051	0.054%
Rio de Janeiro	6,077	0.038%
Paraná	6,062	0.053%
Rio Grande do Sul	5,771	0.053%
Goiás	4,850	0.069%
Bahia	4,585	0.032%
Pará	4,520	0.056%
Santa Catarina	3,985	0.052%
Pernambuco	3,466	0.038%
Mato Grosso	3,009	0.082%
Ceará	2,454	0.028%
Amazonas	2,331	0.059%
Mato Grosso do Sul	2,090	0.076%
Maranhão	1,922	0.028%
Espírito Santo	1,566	0.041%
Paraíba	1,349	0.034%
Distrito Federal	1,249	0.044%
Alagoas	1,123	0.036%
Rondônia	1,103	0.070%
Tocantins	993	0.066%
Rio Grande do Norte	982	0.030%
Sergipe	891	0.040%
Piauí	690	0.021%
Acre	579	0.070%
Roraima	446	0.070%
Amapá	419	0.057%

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

About the name Júnior

Wiktionary lists júnior as a learned borrowing from the Latin iūnior, 'younger', a contracted form of iuvenior, from iuvenis, 'young', with influence from the English junior. Behind the Name explains the name as coming from a nickname used at first for a boy who had the same name as his father. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 87,633 people named Júnior, with a median age of 31. Proportionally, it is most common in Mato Grosso. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) lists Jhunior and Junio among the spelling variants.

Sources

Wiktionary: júnior · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Junior · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Junior · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Júnior

What does the name Júnior mean?

Júnior means “'younger' (from the Latin iūnior)”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Júnior in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 87,633 people with the first name Júnior, which ranks it number 354 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Júnior a boy's or a girl's name?

Júnior is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 497 women and 87,136 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Júnior?

Júnior is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Júnior most common?

Proportionally, in Mato Grosso: 0.082% of the state's population is named Júnior (3,009 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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