Most used nickname
- Input
- José
- Expected output
- Zé
First entry under "jose" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for José
José comes from Hebrew, via Latin and means "God shall add". It is a masculine name carried by 5,754,529 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Zé, followed by Zezinho, Zeca and Zezé.
First entry under "jose" in the curated dictionary.
1 syllable against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "José" 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 "Zé". After it come Zezinho, Zeca and Zezé, all documented in the curated dictionary.
José is of Hebrew, via Latin origin and literally means "God shall add". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "José" usage drew "Zé" as the minimal version and "Zezinho" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 5,754,529 people with this name, about one in every 33 inhabitants. Its high point was in the 1960s, 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 José 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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