Meaning of the nameTiago
Tiago is a male name that arose from Santiago ('Saint James') and goes back to the Hebrew Yaʿaqov, the name of Jacob, understood as 'one who holds the heel' or 'supplanter'.
Meaning
“derived from Jacob (Yaʿaqov), generally understood as 'one who holds the heel' or 'supplanter'”
Source: Behind the Name: Jacob
- People (2022)
- 363,388
- Rank in Brazil
- #76
- Median age
- 30 years
- 2010 Census
- 495,211
- people
Tiago in the 2022 Census
People with the first name Tiago, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (138,281 people).
1,711 women 361,677 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 Tiago is most common
States with the highest share of people named Tiago in the population, in the 2022 Census.
- Rio Grande do Sul 0.273%
- Santa Catarina 0.240%
- Rondônia 0.207%
- Paraná 0.204%
- Minas Gerais 0.194%
All states
| State | People | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 83,456 | 0.188% |
| Minas Gerais | 39,830 | 0.194% |
| Rio Grande do Sul | 29,755 | 0.273% |
| Bahia | 26,953 | 0.191% |
| Rio de Janeiro | 23,890 | 0.149% |
| Paraná | 23,395 | 0.204% |
| Santa Catarina | 18,290 | 0.240% |
| Pernambuco | 13,944 | 0.154% |
| Pará | 13,251 | 0.163% |
| Ceará | 12,077 | 0.137% |
| Goiás | 12,001 | 0.170% |
| Maranhão | 8,889 | 0.131% |
| Espírito Santo | 7,418 | 0.194% |
| Amazonas | 5,952 | 0.151% |
| Mato Grosso | 5,802 | 0.159% |
| Paraíba | 5,233 | 0.132% |
| Distrito Federal | 5,182 | 0.184% |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | 4,396 | 0.159% |
| Piauí | 4,265 | 0.130% |
| Rio Grande do Norte | 3,792 | 0.115% |
| Alagoas | 3,718 | 0.119% |
| Rondônia | 3,270 | 0.207% |
| Sergipe | 3,021 | 0.137% |
| Tocantins | 2,195 | 0.145% |
| Acre | 1,298 | 0.156% |
| Amapá | 1,287 | 0.175% |
| Roraima | 828 | 0.130% |
States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.
About the name Tiago
According to Wiktionary, Tiago arose as a back-formation from Santiago, read as 'Saint James', which goes back to Latin Iacobus, to Greek and to Hebrew Yaʿaqov; Jacó, Jaime and Iago are divergent forms of the same origin, and Tiago is also the name of the apostle in the New Testament. Behind the Name explains Jacob as 'one who holds the heel' or 'supplanter' and records another theory, that of a hypothetical name meaning 'may God protect'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 363,388 people named Tiago, with a median age of 30. Thyago appears among the spelling variants of Tiago in the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil).
The spelling without H and without Y, the form from which Wiktionary derives the others; proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.
Other spellings of Tiago
Sources
- Wiktionary: Tiago · en.wiktionary.org · origin
- Wiktionary: Thiago · en.wiktionary.org · spelling
- Behind the Name: Tiago · behindthename.com · origin
- Behind the Name: Jacob · behindthename.com · meaning
- Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Tiago · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
Questions about the name Tiago
What does the name Tiago mean?
Tiago means “derived from Jacob (Yaʿaqov), generally understood as 'one who holds the heel' or 'supplanter'”, according to Behind the Name.
How many people are named Tiago in Brazil?
IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 363,388 people with the first name Tiago, which ranks it number 76 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.
Is Tiago a boy's or a girl's name?
Tiago is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 1,711 women and 361,677 men had this name.
What is the origin of the name Tiago?
Tiago is a name of Hebrew, Greek and Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.
In which Brazilian state is Tiago most common?
Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.273% of the state's population is named Tiago (29,755 people), according to the 2022 Census.
What are the other spellings of Tiago?
Thiago and Thyago. IBGE counts each spelling separately.
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