Adilson
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adilson is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- AOAngola1 in 982◐
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
- SVEl Salvador1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈141K ●
- #971 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 181 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
180K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Адилсон in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #178 | 139,868 | 164K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 155K | Adilson | 181 |
| SV El Salvador | #544 | 2,668 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Adilson | 20 |
| PY Paraguay | #543 | 2,399 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Adilson | 16 |
| AO Angola | #17 | 2,293 | 2K rec. | — | 2 | Adilson | 44 |
| PE Peru | — | 1,867 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Adilson | 29 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,209 | 756 rec. | — | 2 | Adilson | 32 |
| PT Portugal | #605 | 957 | 335 rec. | — | listed | Adilson | 52 |
| US United States | — | 663 | 5.8K rec. | 1 in 502K | 663 | Adilson | 132 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 634 | 547 rec. | — | — | Adilson | 41 |
| HN Honduras | — | 262 | 262 rec. | — | — | Adilson | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | 247 | 83 rec. | — | — | Adilson | 23 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 203 | 201 rec. | — | — | Adilson | 8 |
Roughly 140K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese2.6M94%
- English143K5%
- Spanish9.6K1%
- French2.1K1%
- ptbr1.3K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 2,558,414 | 94% |
| English | 143,287 | 5% |
| Spanish | 9,609 | 1% |
| French | 2,138 | 1% |
| ptbr | 1,306 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maguilab. 1958BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian boxer (1958–2024)
- Adílson Luíz Anastáciob. 1959BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Adílson Batistab. 1968BRBrazilian association football player and manager
- Adilson dos Santosb. 1976BRBrazilian footballer
- Adílson Ferreira de Souzab. 1978BRBrazilian association football player
- Adílson Warkenb. 1987BRfootball player
- Adilson dos Santos Souzab. 1987BRfootballer
- Adilson Tavares Varelab. 1988CVCape Verdean Swiss association football player
- Adilson da Cruzb. 1993AOassociation football player from Angola
- Angel Gomesb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2000)
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●
Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 155K | #321 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 155K | #94 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 140K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 140K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 140K | #242 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 139K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 134K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 124K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 96K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 50K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 46K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 36K | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Adilson?
- We estimate roughly 141 thousand people bear Adilson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Adilson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 140 thousand people bear Adilson in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adilson.
- How common is Adilson compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Adilson is the 178th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Adilson a male or female name?
- Adilson 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Adilson” — the 178th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.