Most used nickname
- Input
- Gustavo
- Expected output
- Guga
First entry under "gustavo" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Gustavo
Gustavo comes from Germanic and means "staff of the Goths". It is a masculine name carried by 541,480 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Guga, followed by Gu and Tavo.
First entry under "gustavo" in the curated dictionary.
1 syllable against the full name's 3.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Gustavo" 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 "Guga". After it come Gu and Tavo, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Gustavo is of Germanic origin and literally means "staff of the Goths". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Gustavo" usage drew "Gu" as the minimal version and "Guga" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 541,480 people with this name, about one in every 352 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 Gustavo 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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