Tarsila
Meaning
“A rare name of uncertain root, long used in Brazil; famously borne by Tarsila do Amaral, whose painting Abaporu set off Brazil's Antropofagia movement.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Tarsila 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
2,471 people · the #4,445 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 83,333 · median age 20
Among people named Tarsila living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 153 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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