Alcione
given name · Latin script
Meaning: kingfisher; magarico (sea bird)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alsjunɨ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alcione is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 82K
- AOAngola≈1 in 141K
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)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
30,699 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kingfisher; magarico (sea bird)
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alcione 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 | #890 | 30,699 | 1 in 6.9K | 34K | Alcione | 115 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Alcione | 6 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | Alcione | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Alcione | 74 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 458K | — | Alcione | 16 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Alcione | 6 |
30,699 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 pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Alcione is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, kingfisher
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alcione Sorticab. 1935BRBrazilian novelist
- Alcione Guimarãesb. 1940BRBrazilian painter
- Alcione Araújob. 1945BRBrazilian theater director
- Alcioneb. 1947BRBrazilian recording artist and singer (born 1947)
- Alcione Mazzeob. 1951BRBrazilian actress
- Alcione Lôbo Ribeirob. 1962BRBrazilian politician
- Alcione Luiz Giarettonb. 1968BRBrazilian politician
- Alcione Rodrigues de Macedob. 1974BRpolitician from Brazil
- Alcione Carvalhob. 1983BRShe who carries the Flag
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 34K | #1,013 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 31K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 30K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 27K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 26K | #482 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24K | #809 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 7.6K | #906 |
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
- What does the name Alcione mean, and where does it come from?
- kingfisher; magarico (sea bird) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Alcione?
- A machine transcription gives /alsjunɨ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Alcione a male or female name?
- Alcione is a female 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 Alcione have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Alcione, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcione.
- Where is Alcione most common?
- Alcione is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Alcione?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,699 people named Alcione in 2022, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Alcione compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Alcione is the 890th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alcioneThe 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, “Alcione” — the 890th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.