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Meaning of the nameMarcleide

Marcleide is a Brazilian feminine name ending in -cleide, as in Cleide; how the whole name was formed is not known for certain.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,134 people named Marcleide, the 7,595th most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 41, and the largest group was born in the 1970s. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Norte.

Meaning

The meaning of Marcleide 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)
1,134
Rank in Brazil
#7,595
Median age
41 years
2010 Census
1,232
people

Marcleide in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Marcleide, 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 (385 people).

1,104 women 30 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 Marcleide is most common

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

  1. Rio Grande do Norte 0.003%
  2. Ceará 0.002%
  3. Pernambuco 0.001%
  4. Bahia 0.001%
  5. São Paulo 0.000%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Bahia1700.001%
Ceará1600.002%
Pernambuco1210.001%
Rio Grande do Norte1100.003%
São Paulo1010.000%
Amazonas830.002%
Rio de Janeiro440.000%
Sergipe400.002%
Paraíba390.001%
Minas Gerais310.000%
Piauí310.001%
Pará300.000%
Maranhão300.000%
Goiás280.000%
Acre280.003%
Distrito Federal160.001%
Rondônia150.001%

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

About the name Marcleide

Marcleide ends in -cleide, as in Cleide, a name that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) links to Greek kleís, 'key', according to Machado (1981). The formation of Marcleide as a whole is uncertain, so no meaning is assigned to the name. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,134 people named Marcleide, with a median age of 41. The name is almost always female, and most of the records are of people born in the 1970s and 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Norte.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cleide · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Marcleide

What does the name Marcleide mean?

The meaning of Marcleide 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 Marcleide in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,134 people with the first name Marcleide, which ranks it number 7,595 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Marcleide is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,104 women and 30 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Marcleide most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Norte: 0.003% of the state's population is named Marcleide (110 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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