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Brazilian baby names: the 1990s
The portrait of Brazil's 1990s fits in forty names, twenty for each sex. In the open data of IBGE, Brazil's national statistics institute, collected in the 2010 Census, Maria leads among girls born in that decade, with 541,437 Brazilians, and Lucas comes first among boys, with 513,021. The tables below list each sex's top 20 with the official frequencies, and the analysis that follows shows what changed from the previous decade.
Girls' top 20 of the 1990s
| # | Name | People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maria | 541,437 |
| 2 | Ana | 534,115 |
| 3 | Jessica | 344,929 |
| 4 | Bruna | 242,543 |
| 5 | Aline | 210,918 |
| 6 | Amanda | 208,444 |
| 7 | Camila | 205,029 |
| 8 | Juliana | 179,609 |
| 9 | Fernanda | 167,676 |
| 10 | Luana | 165,569 |
| 11 | Larissa | 158,985 |
| 12 | Leticia | 154,321 |
| 13 | Natalia | 147,659 |
| 14 | Gabriela | 146,861 |
| 15 | Vanessa | 139,433 |
| 16 | Mariana | 124,082 |
| 17 | Patricia | 122,099 |
| 18 | Daiane | 121,597 |
| 19 | Rafaela | 116,301 |
| 20 | Jaqueline | 113,696 |
Boys' top 20 of the 1990s
| # | Name | People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas | 513,021 |
| 2 | Jose | 428,065 |
| 3 | Joao | 350,409 |
| 4 | Rafael | 312,180 |
| 5 | Bruno | 289,349 |
| 6 | Gabriel | 268,836 |
| 7 | Felipe | 261,272 |
| 8 | Marcos | 217,844 |
| 9 | Mateus | 217,194 |
| 10 | Paulo | 209,857 |
| 11 | Leonardo | 209,134 |
| 12 | Carlos | 197,089 |
| 13 | Francisco | 194,503 |
| 14 | Daniel | 189,717 |
| 15 | Rodrigo | 180,793 |
| 16 | Antonio | 179,970 |
| 17 | Diego | 177,665 |
| 18 | Pedro | 173,251 |
| 19 | Guilherme | 163,252 |
| 20 | Tiago | 158,083 |
What the 1990s changed
Against the previous decade, in the girls' top 20, Jessica, Bruna, Amanda, Luana, Larissa, Leticia, Natalia, Gabriela, Mariana, Daiane, Rafaela and Jaqueline made their debuts, pushing out Adriana, Luciana, Cristiane, Fabiana, Renata, Marcia, Simone, Daniela, Priscila, Andreia, Tatiane and Carla; on the boys' side, Lucas, Gabriel, Felipe, Mateus, Leonardo, Pedro and Guilherme made their debuts, pushing out Fabio, Leandro, Marcelo, Andre, Anderson, Fernando and Marcio.
Camila made the biggest climb among girls, from rank 15 to 7; Bruno made the biggest climb among boys, from rank 16 to 5.
The margin at the top says a lot: Maria was registered 1.0 times as often as Ana, the second girls' name, a narrower gap than the previous decade (1.7); among boys, Lucas ran 1.2 times ahead of Jose, a narrower gap than the previous decade (2.2).
Compare with the 1980s, when Maria and Jose led, and with the 2000s, which crowned Maria and Joao. The archive The names of Brazil shows the whole timeline at once.
Source: IBGE (Brazil's national statistics institute), 2010 Census, open data. The numbers come from the 2010 Demographic Census and count people alive and living in Brazil that year, grouped by their decade of birth: the oldest decades reflect only those who made it to 2010. Everything here is aggregate public statistics, with no individual records. Snapshot of 2026-07-10.
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