Meaning of the nameSalete

Salete is a female name that, according to Wiktionary, probably comes from the French place name Notre-Dame de la Salette.

Meaning

The meaning of Salete is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022): 41,643
Rank in Brazil: #647
Median age: 56 years
2010 Census: 48,215; people

Salete in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Salete, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (15,856 people).

41,471 women 172 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 Salete is most common

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

Santa Catarina 0.136%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.080%
Paraná 0.065%
Mato Grosso 0.025%
Rondônia 0.024%

All states

State	People	% of population
Santa Catarina	10,317	0.136%
Rio Grande do Sul	8,674	0.080%
Paraná	7,459	0.065%
São Paulo	5,096	0.012%
Minas Gerais	1,551	0.008%
Rio de Janeiro	979	0.006%
Mato Grosso	896	0.025%
Bahia	805	0.006%
Ceará	747	0.009%
Pernambuco	661	0.007%
Alagoas	534	0.017%
Pará	495	0.006%
Mato Grosso do Sul	399	0.015%
Rondônia	380	0.024%
Paraíba	349	0.009%
Goiás	344	0.005%
Rio Grande do Norte	338	0.010%
Maranhão	309	0.005%
Amazonas	287	0.007%
Piauí	245	0.008%
Sergipe	191	0.009%
Distrito Federal	189	0.007%
Espírito Santo	118	0.003%
Tocantins	101	0.007%
Acre	95	0.011%
Roraima	50	0.008%
Amapá	34	0.005%

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

About the name Salete

According to Wiktionary, Salete probably comes from the French place name Notre-Dame de la Salette. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil analyzes the name as Sal- + -ete and records Salethe as a spelling variant; in the Morphemary, Salete appears among the traditional names with the ending -ete, from French -ette, a diminutive suffix that came from Latin. The meaning of the name as a personal name is not known for certain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 41,643 people named Salete, with a median age of 56. The name is almost always female, most of the people recorded were born in the 1950s and 1960s and, proportionally, it is most common in Santa Catarina.

Sources

Wiktionary: Salete · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Salete · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Salete

What does the name Salete mean?

The meaning of Salete is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Salete in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 41,643 people with the first name Salete, which ranks it number 647 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

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

Salete is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 41,471 women and 172 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Salete?

Salete is a name of French origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Salete most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.136% of the state's population is named Salete (10,317 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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