Baby name

FADING BOY · GERMANIC-PORTUGUESE
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Rogerio

/hoh · ZHEH · ree · oh/


“Famous spear”

Portuguese and Brazilian form of the Germanic Roger, from hrod (fame) and ger (spear), meaning famous spear; the -io ending is the Portuguese masculine signature.

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How it ages.

Feels generational in Brazil; tied to a specific mid-20th century birth cohort.

The cultural moment.

Common in Brazil and Portugal from the 1950s through the 1980s; declining sharply in new births since the 1990s.