Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 Rogerio
/hoh · ZHEH · ree · oh/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
roge
Vibe
strong
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.