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[Opinions] Portuguese university students list
I was looking up some things, and came across a list of students enrolled in a particular faculty. I selected those names/combos I found more interesting or unusual. The asterisk after some names means they are not normally accepted by the registrar, but an exception was made probably because the person or one of his/her parents holds a nationality other than Portuguese.Abel (as a mn, very uncommon)
Abigail (very uncommon here)
Abílio x3
Acácio (as a mn)
Adalberto (as a mn, dated and uncommon)
Adelaide
Adelina
Águeda (as a mn, it's the name of a town and I'd never seen it used as a proper name before)
Aires (m) x2 (very unusual, I'd only seen it as a ln)
Alan John *
Albeni * (impossible to tell gender from full name)
Alcides
Alejandro * (as a mn)
Alona *
Alsínio
Alyssa * (as a mn)
Anaisa
Anastasia *
Andrea (uncommon, Andreia is the more popular form)
Andreas Wilhelm *
Andrii *
Anibal
Anselmo (as a mn)
Antero x2 (both as fn and mn, unusual and old-fashioned)
Aritson *
Armindo x2
Ashley *
Atanásio
Aurora
Bebiana (both as fn and mn)
Bento
Branca
Bryan *
Caio
Cassandra
Cassiano
Cassilda Solange
Celeste (as a mn)
Celina
Célio Dinarte (both unusual names)
Christine * (as a mn)
Cidália x3 (both as fn and mn)
Cíntia
Cleiton *
Dalila (as a mn)
Damião
Danilo
Dario Ho *
Darlen *
Décio Cristóvão
Dioclésia Jusefina *
Drieli *
Éder Zenildo *
Edivaldo Yuzo *
Edlise * (f)
Élia
Eliana
Elvira
Emilie * x2
Ercília
Eric
Erika
Estefânia Josete
Estêvão (as a mn)
Eurico
Fabiana x2
Fatmir (can't tell gender from full name, never saw this before)
Flaiane * (as a mn)
Flávia x2
Flor (as a mn)
Flora Bela
Florbela (very dated)
Francelina (as a mn, extremely old-fashioned and uncommon)
Gaspar Boris
Giuseppe *
Hildária (never saw this before)
Henrik *
Herlander (m, both as fn and mn)
Ifigénia (as a mn)
Ilda (very dated)
Iolanda
Isaías x2
Ismael (as a mn)
Israel
Ivo x4
Janete
Jefferson *
Jennifer *
Jethro *
Jhonny * (not a typo)
Josefa (as a mn)
Josué
Joy * (as a mn)
Julie Christie *
Karen (very uncommon here)
Karízia * (probably a creative take on Carícia, which means 'caress' and is not used as name)
Keila *
Laury * (can't tell if male or female)
Leandra Bernardete
Leonara (never saw this one before either)
Lígia
Lincey * (I can't tell if this belongs to a male or a female, the probable mn could also be a ln)
Lino
Lisete
Liza
Lourenço
Luana
Luciano
Ludgero
Magda
Maling * (ln tells me this is a Chinese student)
Marianne *
Marine *
Marvin *
Maurício
Maycol Willian *
Mauro
Mavilde (as a mn, it's both extremely unusual and old-fashioned)
Mélanie Audrey *
Mirieli *
Mohammed Ali
Moisés x3 (both as fn and mn, same as Adalberto)
Naiara Andressa
Narciso (as a mn)
Nayara * (yup, just because it's spelled with a y)
Nídia
Nino
Norberta (as a mn)
Ocília (as a mn, never seen this before)
Octávio
Oleh *
Olímpio (as a mn)
Olinda x2 (so dated)
Óscar
Otávio *
Pandora
Patrocínia do Carmo (this sounds like a 100-year-old woman's name)
Paulino (as a mn)
Pavlo *
Petronilho (as a mn, same as Ocília)
Raúl
Remi (m)
Renata
Renato
Rizo * (m)
Roberdan *
Roman *
Romão
Rosália Graciana
Sabino (as a mn)
Samara
Sandrina
Saúl
Selma
Serafim
Silvana x3
Silvestre Amado ('amado' means beloved, so it's an interesting combo)
Silvino
Simone
Solenne *
Sophia Camille *
Soraya Joelma
Steeve *
Stéphane *
Stephanie *
Stivan *
Suellen *
Tadeu Augusto
Tamara
Tatiane *
Teodoro
Thais *
Ubirajara * (I'm 99% sure this person is Brazilian)
Valerie *
Valério (as a mn)
Vicência (as a mn)
Viktoriya *
Vilma
Vladir Lauro *
Virgílio x2
Viviana
Xavier (as a mn)
Yanjun * (see Maling)
Yara Priscilla
Yasin * (see Yanjun)
Yasmine (as a mn)
Yoann *
Zaques *
Zélia x2
Zita Emanuela
Zuleica
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Andrea is indeed a girl.
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Adelaide is a surprise.
I like Olinda - there's a pretty town in Australia by this name.
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Since when are Alejandro and Anastasia not accepted as names in Portugal? I know at least four Alejandros and two Anastasias, all of whom are fully Portuguese. Same for Sophia Camille. I know a Sophia and a Camille, and while Camille has French ancestry, both her parents are nationals.On another note, Zita Emanuela and Ifigénia are very pretty. I like Anselmo, Tatiane, Marianne, Remi, Pavlo, Anastasia, Patrocínia do Carmo, Petronilho, and Sandrina. And I don't think I've ever met an Olinda under thirty either. Heehee.
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They are either not on the list of accepted names, or they have been rejected. Anastasia and Camille don't show up and both Alejandro and Sophia are marked as 'not accepted'. I actually know the Sophia Camille in question and her mother is English - something similar may be the case with the people you know.Or they may have been born in another country, given names usual in that country and the parents petitioned to have those names accepted here.You can check said list here: http://www.irn.mj.pt/sections/irn/a_registral/registos-centrais/docs-da-nacionalidade/vocabulos-admitidos-e/downloadFile/file/Lista_de_nomes30-09-2012.pdf, if you weren't already familiar with it.
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