IBGE Releases 2022 Name Database Revealing Brazil’s ‘Rihannas,’ ‘Taylors’ and Regional Trends

Overview

• The second edition of IBGE’s Nomes no Brasil, built from Census 2022, lets users search given names and surnames by country, state or municipality with decade-by-decade timelines.
• National counts include 7,464 people named Taylor, 2,811 named Rihanna, 1,821 named Adele, 393 named Shakira, and 36 named Madonna, with median ages of roughly 9, 9, 21, 20, and 33 years, respectively.
• In Ceará, IBGE lists 705 Elvis, 709 Sandy, 160 Rihanna, 89 Taylor, and 63 Neymar, while Acre records 300 Joelma, 210 Alcione, 129 Mariah, 201 Michael, 99 Elvis, and 22 Rihanna.
• IBGE notes visibility limits in the public interface, including a minimum frequency near 20 occurrences and no combined name‑surname searches, which explains absences such as Beyoncé.
• Timeline peaks and medians align with artists’ prominence, with Shakira and Thalia surging in the 1990s, Ariana gaining in the 2010s, and Taylor accelerating from the late 2000s onward.