Most used nickname
- Input
- Mateus
- Expected output
- Teteu
First entry under "mateus" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Mateus
Mateus comes from Hebrew and means "gift of God". It is a masculine name carried by 588,819 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Teteu, followed by Matê.
First entry under "mateus" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Mateus" 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 "Teteu". After it come Matê, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Mateus is of Hebrew origin and literally means "gift of God". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Mateus" usage drew "Matê" as the minimal version and "Teteu" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 588,819 people with this name, about one in every 324 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 Mateus 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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