Most used nickname
- Input
- Carlos
- Expected output
- Cacá
First entry under "carlos" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Carlos
Carlos comes from Germanic and means "free man". It is a masculine name carried by 1,489,191 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Cacá, followed by Carlão and Carlinhos.
First entry under "carlos" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Carlos" 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 "Cacá". After it come Carlão and Carlinhos, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Carlos is of Germanic origin and literally means "free man". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Carlos" usage drew "Cacá" as the minimal version and "Carlinhos" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 1,489,191 people with this name, about one in every 128 inhabitants. The IBGE series was still rising in the last decade measured, 2000 to 2010.
Yes. The lookup ignores accents and letter case, so alternative spellings of Carlos 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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