AngelMaker77's Personal Name List

Portuguese form of Braulio. Known bearers of this name include former Brazilian soccer player Bráulio Barbosa de Lima (b. 1948) and Bráulio Tavares (b. 1950), a Brazilian writer and poet.

Apparently derived from Germanic brahuila meaning "bright, radiant" - with one source saying that it is etymologically related to Old High German brand or brant "sword". However, I am not sure how much stock should be put into that, since it seems like its pronunciation would be akin to brilla (BREEL-lah), which makes it look suspiciously close to the Italian verb brillare "to shine, to sparkle" and ultimately comes from berillus, a latinized form of Greek beryllos. Perhaps Germanic peoples did adopt this Latinate-Greek word into their own language as brahuila? Pretty much all sources agree that the name of Bruilio originated in (Visigothic) Spain, so it could indeed be possible that in Germanic Spain of that time a foreign word from neighbouring (mostly Latinate) countries was adopted and germanized. A notable bearer was Braulio of Zaragoza, a (Visigothic-)Spanish saint from the 7th century AD.

Italian cognate of Blanche. Shakespeare had characters named Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Othello (1603).

Variant of Benedict used by Shakespeare in his comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1599).