Baby name

FADING BOY · BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE-HEBREW
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Maicon

/MY · kon/


“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.

mai

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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.