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IBGE Launches 2022 Census Name Platform With Brazil’s First National Surname Ranking

The public site maps given names and family names across decades and places, revealing stable national leaders alongside shifting local and generational patterns.

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Overview

  • Released on November 4, the second edition of IBGE’s Nomes do Brasil adds a nationwide ranking of surnames for the first time, built from the 2022 Census.
  • Silva leads with 34,030,104 records, followed by Santos with 21,367,475 and Oliveira with 11,708,947, according to the new surname list.
  • Maria remains the most common given name at 12,284,478 records, with José next at 5,164,752, ahead of Ana and João.
  • The dataset covers 203 million residents in 90.7 million households, records names and surnames separately, standardizes variants for dissemination, and lets users query by decade, state, and municipality.
  • Regional differences stand out—Santos tops Bahia even as Silva leads nationally—and newer names such as Ravi, Valentina, Theo, Lorenzo, Eloa, Livia, and Gael appear in the census series for the first time.