Arquimedes
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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.
How popular is Arquimedes around the world?
In the United States, Arquimedes is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. At the 2022 census, 2,451 people in Brazil were named Arquimedes, ranked 4,471st, with a median age of 53.
Arquimedes is on the official records of Brazil and Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Arquimedes is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Arquimedes appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
1 in 83,000
At the 2022 census, 2,451 people in Brazil were named Arquimedes, ranked 4,471st, with a median age of 53.
Among people named Arquimedes living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Spain
1 in 330,000
In Spain, 134 residents are named Arquimedes, ranked 6,517th among men, with a mean age of 56.4 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Montevideo City
last on record 1976
Arquimedes is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
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