Most used nickname
- Input
- André
- Expected output
- Dedé
First entry under "andre" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for André
André comes from Greek and means "manly, courageous". It is a masculine name carried by 583,808 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Dedé, followed by Andrezinho.
First entry under "andre" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "André" 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 "Dedé". After it come Andrezinho, all documented in the curated dictionary.
André is of Greek origin and literally means "manly, courageous". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "André" usage drew "Dedé" as the minimal version and "Andrezinho" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 583,808 people with this name, about one in every 327 inhabitants. Its high point was in the 1980s, 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 André reach the same entry. What does change the result is the selected gender, since it decides which diminutive suffix is applied (-inho/-zinho).
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