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Meaning of the nameWallyson

Wallyson is a spelling of the name Walison.

Meaning

The meaning of Wallyson 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)
3,584
Rank in Brazil
#3,448
Median age
17 years
2010 Census
1,443
people

Wallyson in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Wallyson, 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 (991 people).

0 women 3,569 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 Wallyson is most common

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

  1. Piauí 0.008%
  2. Tocantins 0.008%
  3. Maranhão 0.006%
  4. Rio Grande do Norte 0.005%
  5. Pernambuco 0.004%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Maranhão4300.006%
Pernambuco3640.004%
Minas Gerais3570.002%
São Paulo3160.001%
Piauí2720.008%
Goiás2010.003%
Ceará1780.002%
Pará1710.002%
Rio Grande do Norte1590.005%
Paraíba1460.004%
Rio de Janeiro1430.001%
Bahia1220.001%
Tocantins1170.008%
Alagoas1030.003%
Distrito Federal930.003%
Mato Grosso910.003%
Paraná670.001%
Espírito Santo540.001%
Santa Catarina350.001%
Amazonas340.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul300.001%
Rondônia260.002%
Sergipe220.001%
Rio Grande do Sul200.000%

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

The spelling Wallyson

It uses Y in place of I and is the youngest spelling in the group, with almost as many records of people born in the 2010s as in the 2000s.

About the name Walison

The Morfemário of the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) describes -son as a patronymic formative from English, 'son of', found in names such as Alison, Edson and Talison, and notes that the S of this ending sounds like [s] even between vowels, so Walison and Walisson are pronounced the same. The origin of the beginning Wali- is uncertain. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 15,215 people named Walison, with a median age of 21. Most were born in the 1990s and 2000s, the name is almost always male and, proportionally, it is most common in Tocantins.

Other spellings of Walison

SpellingPeople (2022)
Walisson17,809
Walison15,215
Wallison8,548
Wallyson3,584
Wallisson2,945
Ualisson1,347
Ualison988

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Morfemário (-son) · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Ualison · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Wallyson

What does the name Wallyson mean?

The meaning of Wallyson 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 Wallyson in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,584 people with the first name Wallyson, which ranks it number 3,448 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

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

Wallyson is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 3,569 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Wallyson most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.008% of the state's population is named Wallyson (272 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Wallyson?

Walisson, Walison, Wallison, Wallisson, Ualisson and Ualison. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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