Most used nickname
- Input
- Thiago
- Expected output
- Thiaguinho
First entry under "thiago" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Thiago
Thiago comes from Hebrew and means "supplanter". It is a masculine name carried by 343,737 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Thiaguinho, followed by Ti.
First entry under "thiago" in the curated dictionary.
1 syllable against the full name's 2.
The rule picks between -inho and -zinho based on how "Thiago" 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 "Thiaguinho". After it come Ti, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Thiago is of Hebrew origin and literally means "supplanter". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Thiago" usage drew "Ti" as the minimal version and "Thiaguinho" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 343,737 people with this name, about one in every 555 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 Thiago 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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