Meaning of the nameVânio

Male
Latin origin
Vâ-ni-o

Vânio is a male name that the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil, citing Machado, links to Latin Vanniu, a name connected to the Suebi.

Meaning

The meaning of Vânio 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): 3,119
Rank in Brazil: #3,782
Median age: 46 years
2010 Census: 3,506; people

Vânio in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Vânio, 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 (962 people).

0 women 3,105 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 Vânio is most common

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

Santa Catarina 0.013%
Goiás 0.002%
Minas Gerais 0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.002%
Paraná 0.001%

All states

State	People	% of population
Santa Catarina	980	0.013%
Minas Gerais	465	0.002%
São Paulo	279	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	199	0.002%
Goiás	169	0.002%
Paraná	160	0.001%
Bahia	144	0.001%
Pernambuco	82	0.001%
Alagoas	80	0.003%
Rio de Janeiro	71	0.000%
Mato Grosso	57	0.002%
Pará	50	0.001%
Maranhão	46	0.001%
Espírito Santo	40	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	36	0.001%
Amazonas	35	0.001%
Distrito Federal	34	0.001%
Sergipe	31	0.001%
Ceará	30	0.000%
Tocantins	26	0.002%
Piauí	22	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	21	0.001%
Rondônia	21	0.001%
Paraíba	20	0.001%

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

About the name Vânio

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), citing Machado (1981), gives Latin Vanniu as the origin of Vânio, a name the source associates with a king of part of the Suebi. The meaning of the name is not known for certain. It is the spelling recorded by the dictionary and by IBGE without the accent (Vanio), and the Portuguese Wiktionary gives it as Vânio. Most of the people were born in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and the name is almost always male. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 3,119 people named Vanio, with a median age of 46. Proportionally, it is most common in Santa Catarina.

Sources

Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Vanio · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
Wiktionary em Portuguese: Vânio · pt.wiktionary.org · spelling

Questions about the name Vânio

What does the name Vânio mean?

The meaning of Vânio 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 Vânio in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,119 people with the first name Vânio, which ranks it number 3,782 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1970s.

Is Vânio a boy's or a girl's name?

Vânio is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 3,105 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Vânio?

Vânio is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Vânio most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.013% of the state's population is named Vânio (980 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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