Edilson
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/edilsɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Edilson is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 34th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 4.2K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 8.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 678 (inferred from the name graph)
112,097 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edilson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #226 | 112,097 | 1 in 1.9K | 124K | Edilson | 163 |
| MZ Mozambique | #34 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 678 | — | Edilson | 16 |
| CO Colombia | #521 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 9 | Edilson | 68 |
| AO Angola | #184 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 2 | Edilson | 30 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Edilson | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | #740 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Edilson | 12 |
112,097 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edílson Rodrigues Vieirab. 1941BRBrazilian footballer
- Edílsonb. 1971BRBrazilian association football player
- Edílson José da Silvab. 1978BRBrazilian association football player
- Edilson Pereirab. 1981BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Carlos Moraisb. 1985AOnot in their usual nameAngolan basketball player (born 1985)
- Edílson Mendes Guimarãesb. 1986BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Edílson Abdala Júniorb. 1987BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Edilson Tavares dos Santosb. 1993BRBrazilian footballer
- Orinhob. 1995BRnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Edilson CaronBRBrazilian entomologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 124K | #399 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 124K | #121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 112K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 112K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112K | #290 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 110K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 105K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 93K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 68K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 34K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 33K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 26K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Edilson?
- A machine transcription gives /edilsɔn/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Edilson a male or female name?
- Edilson is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Edilson have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 112 thousand people named Edilson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edilson.
- How common is the name Edilson?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 112,097 people named Edilson in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Edilson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Edilson is the 226th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Edilson?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edilsonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edilson” — the 226th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.