Meaning of the nameLaurentino

Male
Latin origin
Lau-ren-ti-no

Laurentino is a male name of Latin origin, from Laurentinus, which Behind the Name relates to the place name Laurentum.

Meaning

“form of the Latin Laurentinus, linked to the place name Laurentum”

Source: Behind the Name: Laurentino · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Laurentino

People (2022): 2,801
Rank in Brazil: #4,081
Median age: 64 years
2010 Census: 3,944; people

Laurentino in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Laurentino, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (748 people).

0 women 2,789 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 Laurentino is most common

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

Piauí 0.003%
Mato Grosso 0.003%
Bahia 0.003%
Santa Catarina 0.002%
Paraná 0.002%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	597	0.001%
Bahia	354	0.003%
Minas Gerais	289	0.001%
Paraná	238	0.002%
Santa Catarina	180	0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul	147	0.001%
Goiás	109	0.002%
Piauí	109	0.003%
Rio de Janeiro	103	0.001%
Mato Grosso	103	0.003%
Espírito Santo	94	0.003%
Pará	77	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	65	0.002%
Pernambuco	44	0.001%
Ceará	43	0.001%
Maranhão	41	0.001%
Distrito Federal	34	0.001%
Rondônia	33	0.002%
Tocantins	32	0.002%
Paraíba	30	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	25	0.001%
Amazonas	17	0.000%

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

About the name Laurentino

Behind the Name records Laurentino as the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Latin Laurentinus and indicates the place name Laurentum as its root. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) cites Machado (1981) for the same Latin origin, Laurentinus, which it glosses as 'inhabitants of Laurentius'. Laurentina is the feminine form. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,801 people named Laurentino, almost always men, most of them born in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Sources

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

Questions about the name Laurentino

What does the name Laurentino mean?

Laurentino means “form of the Latin Laurentinus, linked to the place name Laurentum”, according to Behind the Name and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Laurentino in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,801 people with the first name Laurentino, which ranks it number 4,081 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

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

Laurentino is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 2,789 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Laurentino?

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

In which Brazilian state is Laurentino most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.003% of the state's population is named Laurentino (109 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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