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Meaning of the nameOtacílio

Otacílio is a male name of uncertain origin, which the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil also records in the forms Octacilio, Hotacilio and Hoctacilio.

Meaning

The meaning of Otacílio 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)
14,597
Rank in Brazil
#1,312
Median age
63 years
2010 Census
21,967
people

Otacílio in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Otacílio, 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 (3,467 people).

49 women 14,548 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 Otacílio is most common

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

  1. Ceará 0.013%
  2. Minas Gerais 0.012%
  3. Paraíba 0.011%
  4. Piauí 0.011%
  5. Tocantins 0.011%
All states
StatePeople% of population
São Paulo2,4250.006%
Minas Gerais2,4160.012%
Bahia1,1970.009%
Ceará1,1060.013%
Rio de Janeiro9140.006%
Pernambuco7670.009%
Paraná6970.006%
Rio Grande do Sul6010.006%
Goiás5490.008%
Paraíba4530.011%
Pará3950.005%
Piauí3710.011%
Maranhão3690.005%
Rio Grande do Norte2920.009%
Santa Catarina2880.004%
Mato Grosso2680.007%
Mato Grosso do Sul2590.009%
Espírito Santo2160.006%
Amazonas1850.005%
Distrito Federal1800.006%
Tocantins1620.011%
Alagoas1530.005%
Rondônia1200.008%
Sergipe1170.005%
Acre510.006%
Amapá290.004%
Roraima170.003%

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

About the name Otacílio

The origin of Otacílio is not known for certain. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil records Octacilio, with CT, and Hotacilio and Hoctacilio, with an initial H, as spelling variants. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 14,597 people named Otacílio, with a median age of 63. The name is almost always male, had the most records among those born in the 1950s, and proportionally it is most common in Ceará.

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Otacilio · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Otacílio

What does the name Otacílio mean?

The meaning of Otacílio 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 Otacílio in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 14,597 people with the first name Otacílio, which ranks it number 1,312 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Otacílio a boy's or a girl's name?

Otacílio is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 49 women and 14,548 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Otacílio most common?

Proportionally, in Ceará: 0.013% of the state's population is named Otacílio (1,106 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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