Most used nickname
- Input
- Alexandre
- Expected output
- Xande
First entry under "alexandre" in the curated dictionary.
Carregando ferramenta… / Loading tool…
nicknames for Alexandre
Alexandre comes from Greek and means "defender of men". It is a masculine name carried by 444,097 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Xande, followed by Alê, Alex and Xandinho.
First entry under "alexandre" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 4.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Alexandre" ends.
It uses a hybrid engine: it first checks curated dictionaries of real, documented nicknames in Portuguese and English, then applies linguistic rules for truncation (apocope and aphaeresis), diminutives, augmentatives and compound names, which work even for names that aren't in any dictionary.
It is "Xande". After it come Alê, Alex and Xandinho, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Alexandre is of Greek origin and literally means "defender of men". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Alexandre" usage drew "Alê" as the minimal version and "Xandinho" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 444,097 people with this name, about one in every 430 inhabitants. Its high point was in the 1970s, and the name had been losing ground in the final decade of the series.
Yes. The lookup ignores accents and letter case, so alternative spellings of Alexandre reach the same entry. What does change the result is the selected gender, since it decides which diminutive suffix is applied (-inho/-zinho).
Everything runs locally in your browser, no name is sent or stored on our servers. Favorites are saved only on your device.