According to Brazil’s Transparência do Registro Civil (part of Arpen-Brasil), the most popular baby names in the country in 2019 were Enzo Gabriel and Maria Eduarda.
Here are Brazil’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
- Maria Eduarda, 12,063 baby girls
- Maria Clara, 10,751
- Maria Cecilia, 9,570
- Maria Julia, 9,448
- Maria Luiza, 9,132
- Ana Clara, 8,452
- Maria Alice, 8,388
- Ana Julia, 8,232
- Helena, 7,765
- Alice, 6,660
Boy Names
- Enzo Gabriel, 16,672 baby boys
- João Miguel, 15,082
- Pedro Henrique, 11,103
- Miguel, 9,436
- Arthur, 8,525
- João Pedro, 8,372
- Heitor, 6,829
- João Lucas, 6,557
- Davi Lucas, 6,543
- Davi Lucca, 6,010
These rankings are based on provisional data covering 2019 up to December 19th. (By that date, 4,472,331 babies had been born in Brazil, which is currently the 6th-most-populated country in the world.)
I’ve never posted the Brazilian rankings before, but other sources says that the top two names (Maria Eduarda and Enzo Gabriel) were the same in 2018.
Sources: Enzo Gabriel, João Miguel e Maria Eduarda são os nomes mais registrados no Brasil em 2019, See the most registered name in Brazil, List of countries and dependencies by population – Wikipedia
Image: Adapted from Flag of Brazil (public domain)
Interesting information about names in Brazil. If you don’t like your given name, it seems you may be out of luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change#Brazil
Interesting! Thanks, ab.