Brazilian Name Generator

Brazilian names are Portuguese in structure but distinctly Brazilian in flavor. A full name usually runs given name, mother's surname, father's surname, so Lucas Oliveira Silva carries his mother's Oliveira and his father's Silva, and it is the final surname that appears on the football shirt. Silva, Santos, Oliveira, Souza, Rodrigues, Ferreira, Alves, Pereira, Lima and Gomes are by far the most common family names, and many Brazilians share them with millions of others, which is why nicknames and first names dominate everyday life. Compound given names such as João Pedro, Maria Eduarda, Ana Clara and Pedro Henrique are extremely popular and are treated as a single first name.

Generation is easy to read from a Brazilian name. Grandparents are Sebastião, Raimundo, Josefa, Aparecida and Terezinha, often with a Marian addition like Maria de Fátima or Rita de Cássia. Parents born in the 1970s and 80s are Anderson, Wellington, Wagner, Jéssica and Rosângela, a period when English-sounding names spread widely. Today's children are Miguel, Arthur, Heitor, Theo, Helena, Alice, Laura and Valentina, with Italian-flavored Enzo, Lorenzo and Pietro reflecting the huge Italian heritage of the south.

Accents are part of the spelling: João, Araújo, Gonçalves and Conceição are incorrect without their tildes and cedillas, and Brazilian Portuguese keeps them even in informal writing.