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Zico. What is the meaning of this name

by zico (guest)

4/17/2007, 9:41 AM

Hello there. My wife is making our son very soon and I want one of his name to be Zico (which happens to be the name of my younger brother.)Please can anyone help me with the meaning or origin of this name. All i can get is that this was the nickname of the famous foot baller from brazil who also has the name on the brand of cocconut water drink.
HELP PLEASE ANYONE

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- Zico (guest) +1

4/7/2020, 4:56 AM

A man with amazing strength.

- thegriffon

4/16/2020, 2:12 AM

the origin has already been explained, and it effectively has no meaning at all. It's a detached diminutive, a noun form used in many different ways - to indicate affection, disparagement, smallness, youth …

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +6

4/18/2007, 11:20 AM

Was your younger brother named after the Brazilian footballer? If not, where did your parents find the name?

- zico (guest) +5

4/18/2007, 8:33 PM

Unfortunately my parents named my brother after the brazilian footballer. I tried getting in touch with him (the footballer) but to no avail.

- Marija Luminitsa +4

4/20/2007, 12:38 AM

As you probably know, the footballer's name is Arthur Antunes Coimbra. According to this site: http://www.ofutebol.com/nicknames.shtml his sister called him Arthurzico, an alternate diminutive of Arthurzinho meaning "little Arthur," which was shortened to Zico. I have not been able to find evidence that others use -zico as a diminutive, so it might have just been a family-specific nickname that was intended to mean "little," without any actual meaning in Portuguese.

- Lumia +3

4/20/2007, 1:25 AM

The diminutive suffixes -ico, -inho are usual in Portuguese names. And the addition of a [z] between the root and the suffix is not completely odd: Joaquim > Joaquimzinho > Quimzinho.

- Marija Luminitsa +2

4/20/2007, 8:22 AM

Thanks

- Mikey (guest) +1

10/10/2017, 3:14 AM

Zico origins

If you had bothered to do any research you would have discovered the highest incidence of the name being used is in Bangladesh and then Egypt. If you want to discover the name's meaning you may want to start with these 2 countries.

- thegriffon

10/11/2017, 7:58 AM

purely coincidental. names and words often have completely different meanings in different languages. You need only be concerned with the meaning of Zico (if any) in Egypt and Bangladesh if you plan on using it there. Could be they're just fans of Brazilian soccer.

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