Baby name
FADING BOY · PORTUGUESE
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇷 +4 Adenilson
/ah · duh · NEEL · sun/
Meaning
“Brazilian compound of Adão and Nilson”
Brazilian Portuguese compound: Adão (Adam) + Nilson; working-class industrial-era name.
How it ages.
Post-1960 Brazilian masculine naming convention; linked to industrialization era; now perceived as dated.
The cultural moment.
Sharply declining in Brazil; associated with fathers born 1950-1970; essentially absent post-2015.