Arquimedes
Meaning
“Portuguese form of Archimedes: Greek archos, 'master', and medea, 'plans, counsel, cunning'; the original bearer was the third-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor”
The story
Arquimedes is carried in Behind the Name's community database as the Catalan, Galician and Portuguese form of Archimedes, and Archimedes needs little introduction: the Greek elements archos, "master", and medea, "plans, counsel, cunning", worn by the third-century BC Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor. The published American record holds exactly one flicker, about 5 boys in the 1990s, and nothing else under this spelling. The name's real territory is the Portuguese-speaking world: Brazil's census counts about 2,450 bearers, almost all men, with a median age of fifty-three and the fullest decades falling in the 1960s and 1970s. A master of plans in the Greek elements, the inventor of legend behind it, and a form of the name that took the long road through Iberia to the Americas.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Arquimedes does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
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Popularity in Brazil
2,451 people · the #4,471 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 83,333 · median age 53
Among people named Arquimedes living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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The Arquimedes deep dive
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