Moacir
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moacir is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian usage.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.4K◐
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands1 in 67K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈62K ●
- Sources
- 155 ●
- 1 in 3.4K ◐
across 5 countries
42K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #378 | 61,684 | 40K rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 80K | Moacir | 155 |
| US United States | — | 108 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 3.1M | 108 | Moacir | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 107 | 88 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 18 |
| PT Portugal | — | 82 | 18 rec. | — | listed | Moacir | 24 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 63 | 29 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | 42 | 37 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 31 | 15 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 31 | 22 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 29 | 28 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 26 | 26 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 22 | 27 rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Moacir | 18 |
| AO Angola | — | 19 | 3 rec. | — | — | Moacir | 5 |
Roughly 62K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 3.4K). 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●
- Portuguese1.1M95%
- English62K5%
- Spanish8221%
- ptbr7541%
- 1321%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 1,137,773 | 95% |
| English | 62,477 | 5% |
| Spanish | 822 | 1% |
| ptbr | 754 | 1% |
| 132 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1940 | 1,791 |
| 1950 | 8,668 |
| 1960 | 21,712 |
| 1970 | 38,981 |
| 1980 | 51,545 |
| 1990 | 57,763 |
| 2000 | 60,262 |
| 2010 | 61,262 |
| 2020 | 61,593 |
| 2022 | 61,684 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 17 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 2026-09-12 data build · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Moacir?
- We estimate roughly 62 thousand people bear Moacir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Moacir have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 62 thousand people bear Moacir in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Moacir compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Moacir is the 378th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Moacir mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Tupi, of Brazilian 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, “Moacir” — the 378th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.