Most used nickname
- Input
- Juliana
- Expected output
- Ju
First entry under "juliana" in the curated dictionary.
nicknames for Juliana
Juliana comes from Latin and means "of the family of Julius". It is a feminine name carried by 564,706 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Ju, followed by Juju and Julinha.
First entry under "juliana" in the curated dictionary.
1 syllable against the full name's 3.
The rule picks between -inha and -zinha based on how "Juliana" 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 "Ju". After it come Juju and Julinha, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Juliana is of Latin origin and literally means "of the family of Julius". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Juliana" usage drew "Ju" as the minimal version and "Julinha" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 564,706 people with this name, about one in every 338 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 Juliana reach the same entry. What does change the result is the selected gender, since it decides which diminutive suffix is applied (-inha/-zinha).
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