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Nowadays Hindu names like Sandeep, Rahul and Anita, etc. are also given. Portuguese names like António, João, Maria, Ana are also common among Goan Catholics who follow Portuguese culture. British names (e.g. Kevin, Shelley) and other European names (e.g. Benito, Heidi), which have no Konkani variants, are also popular.
Frank Simoes, Goan advertising executive; author of Glad Season in Goa. [135] Frank Moraes, editor of prominent newspapers in post-independence India, including The Indian Express [136] Frederick Noronha, active in cyberspace and involved with e-ventures involving Goa, developmental concerns and free software. [137]
[8] [9] [10] Some still do have Hindu surnames such as Shett, Shenoy, Kamath, Padval etc. [1] These ancestral pre-conversion surnames of the Mangalorean Catholics are called paik in Konkani. [11] Mudartha - D'Souza is a unique Mangalorean Catholic surname to be found among some who hail from the Udupi district .
Goans (Romi Konkani: Goenkar, Portuguese: Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries.
Goan Catholics employ the Roman script for their religious and secular writings in Konkani. Goan Catholics speak the Konkani language which is key to the community's identity. [59] Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages, which is spoken predominantly on the west coast of India. [60]
Among women, the names follow the first declension, while among young girls, the names follow the second declension. [155] Portuguese surnames like D'Souza, Coelho, and Pinto are common among Mangalorean Catholics, [114] [157] and generally follow the second declension. [158] Rarely, other European surnames are found as well. [158]
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Portuguese names, having variants in both Roman Konkani and English, like Miguel and Madalena are common among Goan Catholics. [4] Portuguese surnames (like Lobo, D'Souza, Rodrigues, Fernandes and Pinto) are standard among Goan Catholics because of the Christianisation of Goa during Portuguese rule. [5]