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Brazilian baby names: the 2000s
Which names did Brazilian families choose the most in the 2000s? 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 1,105,524 Brazilians, and Joao comes first among boys, with 787,738. 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 2000s
| # | Name | People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maria | 1,105,524 |
| 2 | Ana | 931,115 |
| 3 | Vitoria | 282,734 |
| 4 | Julia | 264,647 |
| 5 | Leticia | 208,527 |
| 6 | Amanda | 175,868 |
| 7 | Beatriz | 170,464 |
| 8 | Larissa | 168,755 |
| 9 | Gabriela | 168,390 |
| 10 | Mariana | 142,606 |
| 11 | Bruna | 137,660 |
| 12 | Camila | 128,347 |
| 13 | Isabela | 126,158 |
| 14 | Luana | 116,460 |
| 15 | Sara | 115,760 |
| 16 | Eduarda | 110,144 |
| 17 | Bianca | 108,866 |
| 18 | Rafaela | 104,428 |
| 19 | Geovana | 104,253 |
| 20 | Fernanda | 104,005 |
Boys' top 20 of the 2000s
| # | Name | People |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joao | 787,738 |
| 2 | Gabriel | 577,365 |
| 3 | Lucas | 499,972 |
| 4 | Pedro | 439,612 |
| 5 | Mateus | 327,290 |
| 6 | Jose | 313,584 |
| 7 | Gustavo | 302,475 |
| 8 | Guilherme | 276,608 |
| 9 | Carlos | 264,446 |
| 10 | Vitor | 242,220 |
| 11 | Felipe | 225,444 |
| 12 | Marcos | 199,438 |
| 13 | Rafael | 193,617 |
| 14 | Luiz | 193,038 |
| 15 | Daniel | 192,619 |
| 16 | Eduardo | 190,054 |
| 17 | Matheus | 188,689 |
| 18 | Luis | 183,425 |
| 19 | Bruno | 174,055 |
| 20 | Paulo | 161,498 |
What the 2000s changed
Against the previous decade, in the girls' top 20, Vitoria, Julia, Beatriz, Isabela, Sara, Eduarda, Bianca and Geovana made their debuts, pushing out Jessica, Aline, Juliana, Natalia, Vanessa, Patricia, Daiane and Jaqueline; on the boys' side, Gustavo, Vitor, Luiz, Eduardo, Matheus and Luis made their debuts, pushing out Leonardo, Francisco, Rodrigo, Antonio, Diego and Tiago.
Leticia made the biggest climb among girls, from rank 12 to 5; Pedro made the biggest climb among boys, from rank 18 to 4.
The margin at the top says a lot: Maria was registered 1.2 times as often as Ana, the second girls' name, a wider gap than the previous decade (1.0); among boys, Joao ran 1.4 times ahead of Gabriel, a wider gap than the previous decade (1.2).
Compare with the 1990s, when Maria and Lucas led. 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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