Most used nickname
- Input
- Pedro
- Expected output
- Pedrinho
First entry under "pedro" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Pedro
Pedro comes from Greek and means "stone, rock". It is a masculine name carried by 1,219,605 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Pedrinho, followed by Pedrão.
First entry under "pedro" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Pedro" 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 "Pedrinho". After it come Pedrão, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Pedro is of Greek origin and literally means "stone, rock". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Pedro" usage drew "Pedrão" as the minimal version and "Pedrinho" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 1,219,605 people with this name, about one in every 156 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 Pedro 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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