11 Facts About Portuguese name

Portuguese name is typically composed of one or two given names, and a number of family names.

For instance, the Portuguese name "Maria do Carmo Mao de Ferro e Cunha de Almeida Santa Rita Santos Abreu" would not be surprising in a married woman.

Portuguese name would be typically known as Maria do Carmo Abreu and would be typically alphasorted and collated under Abreu.

In Portugal, having only one surPortuguese name is rare, and it usually happens when both the parents have the same last Portuguese name, to avoid repetitive combinations such as Antonio Santos Santos.

Prepositions that can be used in Portuguese surnames are da, das, do, dos and de, such as in Maria da Cunha, Jose das Neves, Joana do Rosario, Luis dos Santos, Gabriela de Sousa, etc.

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Specific pattern developed among the descendants of 20th-century immigrants: they use only their father's surname and two given names, the first is a Portuguese given name and the second one is a given name from their father's original country.

Sometimes the given Portuguese name that was the basis of the patronymic became archaic, such as Lopo, Mendo or Mem, Soeiro, Munio, Sancho.

Some Brazilian surnames, like some old Portuguese surnames, are locative surnames that denote the original place where the ancestor who first used it was born or lived.

New Portuguese surname was generally chosen based on the original meaning of the foreign surname.

Some sociologists have suggested that members of the Brazilian upper classes were often raised by slave women who called them using a hypocoristics, and that childish Portuguese name continued to be used, but in a respectful way, when they grew up.

In Brazil, there is no legal restriction on naming a newborn child, unless the given Portuguese name has a meaning that can humiliate or embarrass those who bear it.