Cauã
Meaning
hawk, falcon, from the Tupi kaûã; a modern Brazilian favorite
The story
Cauã comes from the Tupi kaûã, meaning hawk or falcon, which makes it one of Brazil's great Indigenous names. The 2022 census counts 92,215 residents carrying it, median age thirteen, and the curve behind that number is remarkable: 1,089 born in the 1990s, then 49,546 in the 2000s, a forty-five-fold jump in a single decade, with 34,946 more in the 2010s. The actor Cauã Reymond, born in Rio in 1980, arrived well before the wave: the census finds only 178 born in his whole decade, meaning he grew up nearly alone with the name his own country would later fall for at scale. North of the equator the story is just beginning; the name stays rare in American records. The tilde does honest work too: that nasal ã is pure Brazilian Portuguese, a small sound of home for families keeping a connection to Brazil alive in a new place.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Cauã has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Popularity in Brazil
92,215 people · the #341 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 2,203 · median age 13
Among people named Cauã living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 6,406 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Cauã deep dive
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