Rivaldo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rivaldo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 10K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 7.7K
- GFFrench Guiana≈1 in 8.7K
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
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
20,263 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rivaldo 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 | 20,263 | 1 in 10K | 24K | Rivaldo | 107 |
| AO Angola | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Rivaldo | 13 |
| KE Kenya | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Rivaldo | 6 |
| NA Namibia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 5 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | Rivaldo | 75 |
| GY Guyana | 23 | 1 in 33K | 23 | Rivaldo | 1 |
| GF French Guiana | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 5 | — | — |
20,263 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana). 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)
- Jüri-Rivaldo Pastarusb. 1947EEEstonian engineer (1947-2015)
- Rivaldob. 1972BRBrazilian association football player
- Rivaldo Vítor Mosca Ferreira Júniorb. 1995BRBrazilian association football player
- Rivaldo Robertsb. 1996South African athletics competitor (born 1996)
- Rivaldo Leacockb. 1998Barbadian athletics competitor (born 1998)
- Rivaldo Lozanob. 1998MXMexican footballer
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)
Attested in 37 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 24K | #1,248 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 23K | #405 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20K | #1,056 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 3.5K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Rivaldo a male or female name?
- Rivaldo 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 Rivaldo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Rivaldo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rivaldo.
- How common is the name Rivaldo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20,263 people named Rivaldo in 2022, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rivaldo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rivaldoThe 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, “Rivaldo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.