Brazilian names are really long ! Many of the people I work with
have two first names AND two last names. One last name comes from the mother's side
and another from the father's side. Most people go by shortened versions of their full
name. Apparently, Dom Pedro, the first emperor
of Brazil, set high standards for his people - his full name was Pedro de
Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim
José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbom !
Many of the most internationally famous Brazilians soccer stars go by a single name, for example, Pele and Ronaldo - but Pele's full name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, and Ronaldo's is Ronaldo Luis Nazario De Lima.
Senhor R. Luis Nazario De Lima
Application forms for new bank accounts, passports etc must be really long here, if they have to fill in their full name and the full names of their parents as well !
Another observation - plenty of Italian-sounding surnames here. I've come across Andreoni, Rotelli, Galassi and many others that sound quite different from the Silvas, Costas and the Cunhas that one typically associates with the Portuguese & the Brazilians.
The most popular name for men here is Joao, and for women, Maria - or so I'm told.
There's another interesting thing I observed - the use of what sounds to my ears to be Anglo-Saxon last names as first names. For example, I've already met an Anderson, a Wellington, a Hudson and an Edison !
Many of the last names sound quite similar to those found in Goa (a former Portuguese colony in India), but the pronunciations here are very different from the Indian way. "De" is pronounced "je", and "te", to my ears, sounds like "che". More on that in a later post!
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Many of the most internationally famous Brazilians soccer stars go by a single name, for example, Pele and Ronaldo - but Pele's full name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, and Ronaldo's is Ronaldo Luis Nazario De Lima.
Application forms for new bank accounts, passports etc must be really long here, if they have to fill in their full name and the full names of their parents as well !
Another observation - plenty of Italian-sounding surnames here. I've come across Andreoni, Rotelli, Galassi and many others that sound quite different from the Silvas, Costas and the Cunhas that one typically associates with the Portuguese & the Brazilians.
The most popular name for men here is Joao, and for women, Maria - or so I'm told.
There's another interesting thing I observed - the use of what sounds to my ears to be Anglo-Saxon last names as first names. For example, I've already met an Anderson, a Wellington, a Hudson and an Edison !
Many of the last names sound quite similar to those found in Goa (a former Portuguese colony in India), but the pronunciations here are very different from the Indian way. "De" is pronounced "je", and "te", to my ears, sounds like "che". More on that in a later post!
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