Moacir
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moacir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian usage.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- PYParaguay≈1 in 84K
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
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
61,684 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moacir 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.
61,684 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; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Moacir Barbosab. 1921BRBrazilian footballer (1921–2000)
- Moacir Santosb. 1924BRBrazilian composer (1924–2006)
- Moacir Claudino Pintob. 1936BRBrazilian footballer
- Moacir Michelettob. 1942BRBrazilian politician
- Moacir Pereirab. 1960BRfootball manager
- Moacir Júniorb. 1967BRBrazilian football manager (born 1967)
- Moacir Rodrigues Santosb. 1970BRBrazilian association football player (1970–2024)
- Tutab. 1974BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (1974-)
- Moacir Costa da Silvab. 1986BRBrazilian footballer
- Moacir Alves de Andrade Juniorb. 1989BRfootballer
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 80K | #551 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 80K | #161 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 62K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 62K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 61K | #496 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 61K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 60K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 58K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 52K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 39K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 22K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 17K | — |
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 Moacir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Moacir a male or female name?
- Moacir 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 Moacir have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Moacir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moacir.
- Where is Moacir most common?
- Moacir is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moacir?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 61,684 people named Moacir in 2022, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Moacir compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Moacir is the 387th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Moacir?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moacirThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Moacir” — the 387th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.