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Pages in category "Portuguese feminine given names" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This common Portuguese girl’s name of Latin origin means ‘pure and innocent.’ It’s also a pleasure to say, thanks to its dreamy combination of vowels and soft consonant sounds. 17.
Names like Dinis, Duarte, Garcia and Godinho were originally personal names, but today they are used in Brazil almost exclusively as surnames, although Duarte and Dinis are still common personal names in Portugal. Matronymics (surnames derived from female personal names) are not used in Portuguese.
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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.
The most popular personal name placeholders are מה-שמו (mah-shmo, 'whatsisname'), משה (Moshe = Moses) and יוֹסִי (Yossi, common diminutive form of Yosef) for first name, and כהן (Cohen, the most common surname in Israel) for last name.
Pages in category "Portuguese given names" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abril; Assunção; C.
In the United States, the name's popularity reached a peak in 1977, when it was the 39th most popular female name for new births. The popularity has gradually waned since then, being 76th most popular in 1990, and 363rd in 2010.