Baby name

FADING UNISEX · BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE-LATIN
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Lucilene

/loo · see · LEH · nee/


“Unknown”

Brazilian Portuguese elaboration of Lucile, combining the Latin light root with the popular -ene suffix; unmistakably Brazilian in construction.

lu · lene

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How it ages.

Classic mid-century Brazilian form; nostalgic now rather than current.

The cultural moment.

Common in Brazil from the 1960s through 1980s, rarely given today.