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Meaning of the namePoulo

Poulo is a masculine name of uncertain origin, with records spread across all the decades from the 1950s to the 2010s.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 596 people named Poulo, the 11,841st most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 40, and the largest group was born in the 1970s.

Meaning

The meaning of Poulo 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)
596
Rank in Brazil
#11,841
Median age
40 years
2010 Census
1,391
people

Poulo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Poulo, 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 (110 people).

0 women 592 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.

About the name Poulo

The origin of the spelling Poulo is uncertain. It differs from Paulo, a name that Wiktionary traces to Latin Paulus, by the swap of AU for OU, but no source links Poulo to that name. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 596 people named Poulo, with a median age of 40. Records run from the 1950s to the 2010s, with the most people born in the 1970s and 1980s, and the name is almost always male.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Paulo · en.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Poulo

What does the name Poulo mean?

The meaning of Poulo 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 Poulo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 596 people with the first name Poulo, which ranks it number 11,841 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

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

Poulo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 592 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

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