Most used nickname
- Input
- Lucas
- Expected output
- Lucão
First entry under "lucas" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Lucas
Lucas comes from Greek, via Latin and means "man from Lucania". It is a masculine name carried by 1,127,310 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Lucão, followed by Luquinha.
First entry under "lucas" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Lucas" 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 "Lucão". After it come Luquinha, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Lucas is of Greek, via Latin origin and literally means "man from Lucania". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Lucas" usage drew "Lucão" as the minimal version and "Luquinha" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 1,127,310 people with this name, about one in every 169 inhabitants. Its high point was in the 1990s, 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 Lucas 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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