Meaning of the nameVinícios

Male
Latin origin
Vi-ní-ci-os

Vinícios is a Brazilian male name, a variant of Vinícius, which comes from the Roman family name Vinicius.

Meaning

The meaning of Vinícios 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): 60,944
Rank in Brazil: #500
Median age: 19 years
2010 Census: 97,990; people

Vinícios in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Vinícios, 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 (23,801 people).

473 women 60,471 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 Vinícios is most common

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

Rondônia 0.055%
Santa Catarina 0.049%
Mato Grosso 0.045%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.044%
Paraná 0.040%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	14,824	0.033%
Minas Gerais	5,348	0.026%
Rio Grande do Sul	4,813	0.044%
Paraná	4,583	0.040%
Santa Catarina	3,696	0.049%
Bahia	3,601	0.026%
Rio de Janeiro	3,355	0.021%
Goiás	2,439	0.035%
Pará	2,434	0.030%
Pernambuco	2,207	0.024%
Mato Grosso	1,645	0.045%
Maranhão	1,439	0.021%
Amazonas	1,434	0.036%
Ceará	1,296	0.015%
Espírito Santo	1,138	0.030%
Mato Grosso do Sul	1,000	0.036%
Rondônia	866	0.055%
Paraíba	757	0.019%
Distrito Federal	716	0.025%
Alagoas	672	0.022%
Rio Grande do Norte	623	0.019%
Piauí	545	0.017%
Tocantins	498	0.033%
Sergipe	324	0.015%
Acre	244	0.029%
Amapá	228	0.031%
Roraima	219	0.034%

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

About the name Vinícios

Behind the Name lists Vinícios as a Brazilian variant of Vinícius, and Wiktionary lists it among the alternative forms of Vinícius, a learned borrowing from Latin Vīnicius, the name of a Roman gens. Wiktionary and Behind the Name tentatively link this family name to Latin vinum, 'wine', and the etymology remains uncertain. The spelling replaces the Latin ending -us with -os. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 60,944 people named Vinícios, with a median age of 19. The name is almost always male and, proportionally, most common in Rondônia.

Sources

Behind the Name: Vinícios · behindthename.com · origin
Wiktionary: Vinícius · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Vinicius (Latin) · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Vinicio · behindthename.com · origin

Questions about the name Vinícios

What does the name Vinícios mean?

The meaning of Vinícios 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 Vinícios in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 60,944 people with the first name Vinícios, which ranks it number 500 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Vinícios a boy's or a girl's name?

Vinícios is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 473 women and 60,471 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Vinícios?

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

In which Brazilian state is Vinícios most common?

Proportionally, in Rondônia: 0.055% of the state's population is named Vinícios (866 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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