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Dutch-Portuguese names
Adriana
Albertina
Alex
Alexandra
Aline
Amalia
Amanda
André
Angelina
Antonia
Augusta
Bruno
Carla
David
Diana
Elias
Elvira
Eva
Felix
Flora
Francisca
Fred
Gisela
Guido
Helena
Hugo
Irene
Juliana
Julie
Laura
Lucas
Magda
Manuel
Marco
Maria
Marina
Marta
Natalia
Nico
Oscar
Paula
Samuel
Sandra
Sara
Tatiana
Vanessa
Victor
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Dutch names that may also be Portuguese words
The following names often appeared in Portuguese language web pages. That means that they are either Portuguese words, or names which are very familiar to Portuguese speakers.
Portuguese names that may also be Dutch words
These names often appeared in Dutch language web pages.
Portuguese word ending matches
Portuguese names often end with -io or -ia. Below are Dutch names with one of those word endings.
Fuzzy matches
These are names that would have been the same between the languages, if it hadn't been for a single character difference. Each entry shows an approximate match with the Dutch name on the left, and the Portuguese name on the right.
Dutch-Portuguese names popular in both
Names from this page that appear in the official baby name statistics of both a Dutch-speaking and a Portuguese-speaking country.
| Name | Dutch | Portuguese |
|---|---|---|
| Maria | #61 girls Netherlands 2025 | #1 girls Portugal 2022 |
| Manuel | #160 boys Netherlands 2025 | #20 boys Portugal 2022 |
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Adriana
Adriana, the feminine form of Adrian, means “from Hadria,” pointing to the Adriatic coast of Italy and Dalmatia. Adriana is also given meanings like “dark,” “black earth,” or a woman with dark features, with forms such as Adrianna and Adrienne.
Sources: 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy, The Best Baby Names for Girls, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), The Everything Baby Names Book
Alex
Alex is a short form of Alexander, Alexandra, or Alexis, meaning a helper and defender of mankind. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is a well-known bearer.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Alexandra
Alexandra is the feminine form of Alexander, from Greek, meaning “defender” or “protector of mankind.” Alexandra has long had a royal, somewhat upper-crust air, associated with Princess Alexandra of Denmark and with Queen Victoria, whose given name was Alexandrina.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Amanda
Amanda is a Latin name meaning “loved,” “much loved,” or “worthy of being loved,” with Mandy as its classic nickname. Amanda is fairly recent, first appearing in 17th-century English literature, and its slightly patrician feel is balanced by the casual Mandy; Cole Porter and Barry Manilow both sang about it.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Antonia
Antonia is the Latin feminine of Anthony, meaning “priceless” or “praiseworthy,” with forms such as Antonina and Tonya. Antonia was also a fortress in Jerusalem named by Herod for Mark Antony, where Paul addressed a crowd with the story of his conversion.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Classic Biblical Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Augusta
Augusta is the feminine form of Augustus, a Latin name meaning “majestic,” “great,” or “worthy of respect.” Augusta recalls the emperor Augustus, is the capital of Maine, and is the first name of the formidable Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest; Gussy is a nickname.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Bruno
Bruno is a German name meaning “brown,” or brown-haired, with one source adding “bear.” Bruno is also glossed as “dark-skinned.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Best Baby Names for Boys, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Carla
Carla is a feminine form of Carl, meaning “woman” or “free woman.” Carla is a sassier, more approachable relative of Charles that lost luster in recent decades but got a boost when Carla Bruni married French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names, The Best Baby Names for Girls, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
David
David is a Hebrew name meaning “beloved,” “cherished,” or “darling.” The biblical David was a shepherd boy who slew Goliath, wrote psalms and music, and became a mighty king of Israel.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, Classic Biblical Baby Names, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Diana
Diana comes from Latin and means “divine.” In Roman myth Diana was the goddess of the moon and the hunt, counterpart of the Greek Artemis.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Elias
Elias is the Greek form of Elijah, meaning “the Lord is my God” or “Jehovah is God.” In the New Testament Elias appears with Moses at the Transfiguration; Eli is a common short form and Elliot grew out of it.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy, The Best Baby Names for Boys, Classic Biblical Baby Names, Numerology for Baby Names, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With
Elvira
Elvira is given Spanish and Latin meanings such as “white,” “fair,” or “blonde.” A German derivation gives Elvira the meaning “foreign but true” or “strange truth.”
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, Baby Names Book
Eva
Eva is a form of Eve, a Hebrew name meaning “life” or “giver of life.” Eva is a short, sweet classic that is rising again, though its several possible pronunciations may have helped its sister name Ava pull ahead.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Felix
Felix is a Latin name meaning “happy,” “lucky,” or “fortunate.” Used since ancient times, Felix is a steady classic and a more distinctive alternative to Alex.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, Classic Biblical Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, Unusual Baby Names
Flora
Flora is Latin for “flower” and was the name of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring. Flora came into use in the 1700s; Flora Macdonald famously helped a fleeing Prince Charles escape through Scotland in 1746.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Fred
Fred is a short form of Frederick or Alfred, meaning “peaceful ruler.” Notable Freds include Fred Astaire, Fred MacMurray, Fred Rogers and Freddie Mercury.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Irene
Irene is a Greek name meaning “peace,” after the goddess of peace, with Irena and Irina as popular variants. Irene was borne by a fourth-century saint and a Byzantine empress, and stayed popular until the mid-twentieth century; its variants are now more common.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Julie
Julie is a short French form of Julia, meaning “young” or “youthful”; Julie Andrews is a famous bearer. A badass namesake is Julie Dash, whose 1992 film Daughters of the Dust was the first mainstream release directed by an African-American woman.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, Badass Baby Names
Laura
Laura comes from Latin and means “laurel,” or “crowned with laurel.” Laurel stands for victory, distinction, and peace, worn as wreaths by Roman emperors and Olympic athletes; the name also recalls Laura of Little House on the Prairie.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Lucas
Lucas means “man from Lucania,” a region in southern Italy, with Luke and Lukas as forms. Lucas is also linked to “light” or “luminous.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Baby Names Made Easy, Classic Biblical Baby Names, Numerology for Baby Names
Manuel
Manuel is a form of Emmanuel, Hebrew for “God is with us,” a title of the Messiah. Manuel is very popular with Hispanic families and more common than Emmanuel, a lighter alternative to it.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Maria
Maria is the Latin and Mediterranean form of Mary, meaning “bitter,” or “star of the sea.” Deeply traditional yet modern-sounding, Maria evokes The Sound of Music, West Side Story, and “Ave Maria”; it was also the name of a wife of Muhammad.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Marina
Marina is Latin for “from the sea.” Marina is a fashionable Shakespearean name.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Oscar
Oscar is commonly explained as English for “divine spear” or “spear of the gods.” Oscar is also authentically Irish, meaning “deer lover”; in legend Oscar, son of Oisín, became the mightiest of the Fianna, and the name spread to Scandinavia as Oskar.
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Irish Names for Children
Paula
Paula is the feminine of Paul, from Latin for “small,” with relatives like Paulina, Pauline and Paola. Paula was in the top hundred from the 1950s to the early 1970s but has since dropped, while the Italian Paola has climbed.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Samuel
Samuel is a Hebrew name meaning “God has heard” or “asked of God.” The biblical Samuel, born to Hannah who had asked God for him, became Israel’s last judge and first prophet.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, Classic Biblical Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Sandra
Sandra began as a short form of Alexandra (or Alessandra) and means “defender” or “helper of mankind.” A forgotten novel, Sandra Belloni, launched it as a standalone name; it peaked from the 1940s to 1960s, and the French Sandrine may give it new life.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Tatiana
Tatiana is a Russian feminine form of Tatius, after the ancient king Titus Tatius, who ruled alongside Romulus; Tanya and Tania are familiar short forms. Tatiana is often glossed as “fairy queen.”
Sources: 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Numerology for Baby Names
Vanessa
Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift for his poem “Cadenus and Vanessa,” combining part of Esther Vanhomrigh’s surname with a nickname for Esther. Vanessa is also connected to the Greek word for “butterfly,” and it is the name of a butterfly genus that contains the Red Admiral and the Painted Lady.
Sources: 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 10,000 Baby Names
Victor
Victor is a Latin name meaning “conqueror,” “champion,” or “winner,” with Vic, Viktor, and Vittorio as related forms. The name once referred to Christ’s triumph over death; popular in Roman times, it faded in the Middle Ages before returning in Britain.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Boys, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
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