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Ágata f Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Agatha.

Águeda f Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Agatha.

Álvaro m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish form of Alvarus, the Latinized form of a Visigothic name, possibly derived from the elements alls "all" and wars "aware, cautious" or wards "guard". Álvar Fáñez was an 11th-century military commander and duke of Toledo, who appears as a general of El Cid in the epic poem El Cantar de mio Cid. Verdi also used the name in his opera The Force of Destiny (1862).

Amália f Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak
Hungarian, Portuguese and Slovak form of Amalia.

Anastácia f Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese form of Anastasia.

Áurea f Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Aurea.

Bárbara f Portuguese, Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Barbara.

Bonifácio m Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese form of Bonifatius (see Boniface).

Brás m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Blaise.

Cássia f Portuguese
Portuguese feminine form of Cassius.

Cássio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Cassius.

Cátia f Portuguese
Diminutive of Catarina.

Cesária f Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese feminine form of Caesarius.

Cesário m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Caesarius.

Cezário m Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Brazilian Portuguese variant of Cesário.

Cláudia f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Claudia.

Cláudio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Claudius.

Dário m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Dario.

Diná f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Dinah.

Engrácia f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Engracia.

Eulália f Portuguese, Slovak
Portuguese and Slovak form of Eulalia.

Eustáquio m Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese form of Eustachius (see Eustace).

Fábia f Portuguese
Portuguese feminine form of Fabius.

Fábio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Fabius.

Fátima f Portuguese, Spanish
From the name of a town in Portugal, which was derived from the Arabic feminine name Fatima, apparently after a Moorish princess who converted to Christianity during the Reconquista. The town became an important Christian pilgrimage center after 1917 when three local children reported witnessing repeated apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

Flávia f Portuguese
Portuguese feminine form of Flavius.

Flávio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Flavius.

Gervásio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Gervasius.

Gláucia f Portuguese
Feminine form of Gláucio.

Gláucio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of the Roman cognomen Glaucia, which was derived from Latin glaucus "bluish grey", ultimately from Greek.

Guálter m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Walter.

Horácio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Horatius.

Inácio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Ignatius.

Lázaro m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Lazarus.

Leocádia f Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese form of Leocadia.

Márcia f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Marcia.

Márcio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Marcius.

Mário m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Marius.

Máximo m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Maximus.

Nádia f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Nadia 1.

Natália f Portuguese, Slovak, Hungarian
Portuguese, Slovak and Hungarian form of Natalia (see Natalie).

Nathália f Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese form of Natalia (see Natalie).

Octávia f Portuguese (Rare)
Portuguese form of Octavia.

Octávio m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Octavius.

Olegário m Portuguese
Portuguese form of Olegario.

Otávia f Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare)
Brazilian Portuguese form of Octavia.

Otávio m Portuguese (Brazilian)
Brazilian Portuguese form of Octavius.

Plácido m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese form of Placidus (see Placido).

Rosália f Portuguese
Portuguese form of Rosalia.

Rosário f Portuguese
Portuguese (feminine) form of Rosario.

Tácito m Portuguese (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Portuguese and Spanish form of Tacitus.

Tomás m Spanish, Portuguese, Irish
Spanish, Portuguese and Irish form of Thomas.

Válter m Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese variant form of Walter.

Wálter m Spanish, Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese variant form of Walter, more common in South America than Europe. It is often written without the diacritic.

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