Entry № 10384 · Portuguese origin

Tarsila Tarsila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tar-SEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Portuguese
Meaning
"Brazilian modernist painter (do Amaral)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Portuguese)

A name that means "brazilian modernist painter (do amaral)".

Tarsila is a Portuguese-Latin name from Tharsilla (martyred Roman virgin). Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) was the founding mother of Brazilian modernism — her 1928 painting Abaporu ("the man who eats") inspired her husband Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagic Manifesto that defined modern Brazilian art.

Brazilian modernist painter (do Amaral) — a Portuguese name.

The name in its native script.

Tarsila
Transliteration
Tarsila
Pronunciation
/ tɑːrˈsiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarsila stands.

Tarsila does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tarsilas before her.

Real people
Tarsila do Amaral
Brazilian modernist painter.
1886 – 1973
In fiction
Tarsila
Featured in MoMA's 2018 retrospective.

Names connected to Tarsila.

The number behind Tarsila.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tarsila reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.