Joãozinho

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a diminutive of the male given name João

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Joãozinho is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 406K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

522 people, 2022

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 406K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joaozinho in FR France.

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(measured from records)

a diminutive of the male given name João

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Joãozinho 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.

Where Joãozinho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil5221 in 406K657——
FR France———Joaozinho32

522 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Joãozinho is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Joaozinho

  • Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, English

    Also written Joaozinho, Joáozinho

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Joaozinho

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Joaozinho

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000João I de Portugal, b. 1357John II of Portugal, b. 1455João III, b. 1502John IV of Portugal, b. 1604Pedro V of Portugal, b. 1837João Havelange, b. 1916João Bernardo Vieira, b. 1939João Lourenço, b. 1954João Moutinho, b. 1986João Félix, b. 1999
  • João I de Portugalb. 1357PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1385 to 1433
  • John II of Portugalb. 1455PTnot in their usual namePortuguese king
  • João IIIb. 1502PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (r. 1521-1557)
  • John IV of Portugalb. 1604PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1640 to 1656 (lived 1604-1656)
  • Pedro V of Portugalb. 1837PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
  • João Havelangeb. 1916BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian businessman and athlete (1916–2016)
  • João Bernardo Vieirab. 1939GWnot in their usual namePresident of Guinea-Bissau (1939-2009)
  • João Lourençob. 1954AOnot in their usual namePresident of Angola since 2017
  • João Moutinhob. 1986PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1986)
  • João Félixb. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1999)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Joãozinho under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Joãozinho mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the male given name João Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Joãozinho a male or female name?
Joãozinho 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.
What are other forms of the name Joãozinho?
In the etymology graph, Jack, Johnny and Jo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of João.
In which country does Joãozinho have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 522 people named Joãozinho, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Joãozinho most common?
Joãozinho is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 406 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Joãozinho?
In Brazil, the national register counted 522 people named Joãozinho in 2022, about 1 in 406 thousand residents.

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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, “Joãozinho”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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