Zilmar
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zilmar 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.
- BRBrazil1 in 31K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 2.1M
- PYParaguay1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.7K ●
- Sources
- 77 ●
- 1 in 31K ◐
across 1 country
5.2K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 6,729 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 31K | 7.8K | Zilmar | 77 |
| US United States | 144 | 180 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 23 |
| PH Philippines | 81 | 731 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 12 |
| ES Spain | 24 | 13 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 23 | 17 rec. | — | 2 | Zilmar | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | 10 | 6 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 4 |
| PE Peru | 10 | 8 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 1 |
| MX Mexico | 5 | 4 rec. | — | — | Zilmar | 3 |
Roughly 6.7K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 31K). 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●
- Portuguese102K94%
- English6.8K6%
- Spanish1171%
- ptbr351%
- 271%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 101,896 | 94% |
| English | 6,828 | 6% |
| Spanish | 117 | 1% |
| ptbr | 35 | 1% |
| 27 | 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 34 |
| 1940 | 153 |
| 1950 | 598 |
| 1960 | 1,742 |
| 1970 | 3,873 |
| 1980 | 5,635 |
| 1990 | 6,415 |
| 2000 | 6,647 |
| 2022 | 6,729 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 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●
- Zilmar Campos de Araripe Macedob. 1908BRBrazilian squadron admiral, former Minister of the Navy of Brazil
- Zilmar Melob. 1934BRBrazilian politician
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.8K | #2,526 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 6.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 5.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.3K | #1,364 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.7K | #2,223 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.5K | #1,894 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #2,223 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Zilmar?
- We estimate roughly 6.7 thousand people bear Zilmar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Zilmar have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.7 thousand people bear Zilmar in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled zilmar.
- Where is Zilmar most common?
- Zilmar is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Zilmar a male or female name?
- Zilmar is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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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, “Zilmar”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.