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Meaning of the nameVenicios

Venicios is a Brazilian masculine name whose spelling is close to Vinícios, the Portuguese form of the Roman clan name Vinicius.

Meaning

The meaning of Venicios 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)
2,068
Rank in Brazil
#4,992
Median age
18 years
2010 Census
3,194
people

Venicios in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Venicios, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (819 people).

23 women 2,045 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 Venicios is most common

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

  1. Bahia 0.003%
  2. Maranhão 0.002%
  3. Ceará 0.002%
  4. Pernambuco 0.002%
  5. Santa Catarina 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Bahia4070.003%
São Paulo2130.001%
Ceará1440.002%
Maranhão1440.002%
Pernambuco1360.002%
Santa Catarina1140.002%
Amazonas990.003%
Paraná970.001%
Pará950.001%
Rio Grande do Sul820.001%
Paraíba680.002%
Alagoas670.002%
Minas Gerais490.000%
Piauí470.001%
Rio Grande do Norte450.001%
Mato Grosso400.001%
Sergipe380.002%
Goiás350.001%
Acre350.004%
Rio de Janeiro290.000%
Tocantins190.001%
Rondônia170.001%
Espírito Santo160.000%

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

About the name Venicios

The spelling Venicios recalls Vinícios, a variant of Vinícius, which Wiktionary gives as a learned borrowing from Latin Vinicius, the name of a Roman clan. The origin of the spelling Venicios is uncertain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,068 people named Venicios, with a median age of 18; proportionally, it is most common in Bahia. It is almost always a male name, and most of the people were born in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Vinícius · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Venicios

What does the name Venicios mean?

The meaning of Venicios 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 Venicios in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,068 people with the first name Venicios, which ranks it number 4,992 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

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

Venicios is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 23 women and 2,045 men had this name.

In which Brazilian state is Venicios most common?

Proportionally, in Bahia: 0.003% of the state's population is named Venicios (407 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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