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Meaning of the nameLucinalva

Lucinalva is a female Brazilian name formed from Luci- and -nalva, with the most records in the 1970s, and with no documented meaning as a whole.

Meaning

The meaning of Lucinalva 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)
3,360
Rank in Brazil
#3,591
Median age
45 years
2010 Census
3,470
people

Lucinalva in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Lucinalva, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1970s (1,244 people).

3,344 women 0 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 Lucinalva is most common

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

  1. Maranhão 0.007%
  2. Pernambuco 0.006%
  3. Bahia 0.005%
  4. Rio Grande do Norte 0.004%
  5. Paraíba 0.004%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Bahia7540.005%
Pernambuco5710.006%
São Paulo4450.001%
Maranhão4400.007%
Pará1670.002%
Paraíba1640.004%
Rio Grande do Norte1410.004%
Minas Gerais1000.001%
Rio de Janeiro980.001%
Goiás620.001%
Mato Grosso480.001%
Sergipe480.002%
Alagoas400.001%
Piauí360.001%
Tocantins340.002%
Distrito Federal330.001%
Paraná300.000%
Espírito Santo250.001%
Santa Catarina230.000%
Ceará220.000%
Rondônia220.001%
Amazonas170.000%

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

About the name Lucinalva

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) analyzes Lucinalva as Luci- + -nalva. According to the same dictionary's Morfemário, Luci- is probably a fragment of names such as Lúcia and Lúcio, and -nalva perhaps comes from Latin alba, 'white, bright', as in Marinalva. The meaning of the whole is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 3,360 people named Lucinalva, with a median age of 45. The records are almost always female.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Lucinalva · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (LUCI-, -ALVA) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Lucinalva

What does the name Lucinalva mean?

The meaning of Lucinalva 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 Lucinalva in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,360 people with the first name Lucinalva, which ranks it number 3,591 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Lucinalva is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 3,344 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Lucinalva most common?

Proportionally, in Maranhão: 0.007% of the state's population is named Lucinalva (440 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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