Brasil as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Brasil

What is the meaning of the name Brasil ?

The baby name Brasil is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Portuguese: /bɾaˈziw/ (brah-ZEEL); English: /brəˈzɪl/ (bruh-ZIL).

Brasil is Portuguese in Origin.

Brasil is a toponymic given name from Portuguese and Spanish Brasil, the country name. The word traces to pau-brasil, the red dyewood prized by early traders; brasil comes from Late Latin brasa “ember,” with an adjectival element meaning “ember-colored,” hence “the redwood.” The spelling echoes, but is etymologically distinct from, Hy-Brasil, the Irish phantom island (Í Breasail), whose second element is the Old Irish personal name Bresal meaning “strife” or “mighty.”

As a given name, Brasil is rare but attested across Latin America, Lusophone and Hispanophone diasporas, and occasionally in the United States, typically masculine and sometimes unisex, often chosen for patriotic or place-name associations. It also appears as a surname in Iberian and Latin American records. Variants and related forms include Brazil (English), Brasile (Italian exonym), and the feminine Brasília/Brasilia; English surnominal spellings such as Brazill and Braziel are cognate in usage rather than origin.

⚙ Brasil is seldom given. We count 146 recorded uses of it across 33 countries.