Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 Maicon
/MY · kon/
Meaning
“Who is like God”
Brazilian Portuguese phonetic spelling of Michael, from the Hebrew Mikha'el meaning who is like God; the spelling locates it unmistakably in Brazilian naming culture.
Nicknames
mai
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Firmly 1990s Brazilian; the phonetic spelling dates it to a specific era.
The cultural moment.
Peaked in Brazil in the 1990s and early 2000s; declining in current registrations.