Names distinctive to Brazil

The list of names unique to the Federative Republic of Brazil*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Maria 41% 1.
2. Ana 51% 2.
3. Francisca 56% 3.
4. Antonia 53% 4.
5. Marcia 71% 6.
6. Fernanda 77% 8.
7. Aline 88% 9.
8. Juliana 53% 7.
9. Bruna 84% 14.
10. Adriana 39% 5.
11. Luciana 70% 11.
12. Josefa 62% 10.
13. Rosangela 97% 24.
14. Eliane 88% 21.
15. Cristiane 100% 28.
16. Camila 73% 18.
17. Aparecida 96% 29.
18. Luzia 98% 31.
19. Larissa 84% 27.
20. Luana 91% 33.
21. Renata 75% 25.
22. Joana 79% 30.
23. Luiza 96% 38.
24. Andreia 95% 41.
25. Thais 98% 45.

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Jose 43% 1.
2. Joao 98% 2.
3. Antonio 53% 3.
4. Francisco 50% 4.
5. Luiz 93% 5.
6. Paulo 87% 7.
7. Manoel 98% 9.
8. Pedro 44% 8.
9. Carlos 33% 6.
10. Marcos 62% 10.
11. Raimundo 92% 12.
12. Sebastiao 95% 14.
13. Lucas 50% 11.
14. Marcelo 59% 16.
15. Matheus 93% 23.
16. Guilherme 98% 25.
17. Marcio 98% 28.
18. Geraldo 94% 26.
19. Rafael 42% 15.
20. Thiago 99% 35.
21. Edson 86% 30.
22. Gabriel 30% 13.
23. Fabio 62% 22.
24. Leandro 75% 27.
25. Rodrigo 52% 19.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Silva 94% 1.
2. Santos 89% 2.
3. Oliveira 97% 3.
4. Souza 97% 4.
5. Lima 95% 5.
6. Pereira 84% 6.
7. Costa 87% 7.
8. Ferreira 86% 8.
9. Nascimento 99% 9.
10. Sousa 92% 10.
11. Rodrigues 86% 11.
12. Araujo 90% 12.
13. Almeida 88% 13.
14. Alves 92% 14.
15. Filho 100% 19.
16. Carvalho 89% 15.
17. Gomes 85% 16.
18. Ribeiro 90% 18.
19. Junior 83% 20.
20. Barbosa 89% 21.
21. Martins 81% 22.
22. Rocha 78% 23.
23. Soares 91% 24.
24. Conceicao 99% 30.
25. Goncalves 89% 26.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Portugal 73%
Mexico 36%
Argentina 35%
Uruguay 33%
Nicaragua 32%
Greece 31%
Peru 22%
Spain 22%
Luxembourg 22%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).