Baby name

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Gilmar

/ZHIL · mar/


“Unknown”

Brazilian masculine name combining 'Gil' (from Germanic 'gisil', pledge) with '-mar' (sea or fame); a constructed compound name common in 20th-century Brazil.

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How it ages.

Generational Brazilian name; carries a mid-century timestamp.

The cultural moment.

Common in Brazil from the 1950s through 1970s; now considered an older-generation name.