In this episode, you’ll learn how to pronounce some of the most popular Portuguese family names. You’ll also learn about naming conventions in Portugal.
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Naming conventions
Portuguese can have first and middle names. In this example, Ana Sofia.
To this you add the family names (plural). The family names can be one or two from the mother, and one or two from the father. First come the mother’s family names (this includes the last one from her mother and the last one from her father), then come the father’s family names (the last one from his mother and the last one from his father).
There can also be only one name from the mother and only one name from the father (it’s a personal choice from the parents to do this), if that’s the case, then the choice falls on the last name of the parents’ fathers).
List of family names
Abreu
Aguiar
Albuquerque
Almeida
Álvares
Amaral
Andrade
Araújo
Azevedo
Barros
Barbosa
Barradas
Bastos
Bernardes
Bettencourt
Borges
Botelho
Brito
Cabral
Campos
Cardoso
Carneiro
Carvalho
Coelho
Cordeiro
Correia
Costa
Coutinho
Cunha
Esteves
Faria
Fernandes
Ferreira
Figueira
Fonseca
Freitas
Gago
Garcia
Gomes
Gonçalves
Guedes
Guerreiro
Henriques
Leal
Leitão
Lemos
Lima
Lopes
Lourenço
Machado
Marques
Matos
Melo
Mendes
Mendonça
Meneses
Monteiro
Morais
Moutinho
Neto
Nobre
Nogueira
Nunes
Oliveira
Pacheco
Pais
Pedroso
Peixoto
Pereira
Peres
Pires
Pessoa
Pimentel
Pinheiro
Pinto
Portugal
Queiroz/Queirós
Ramires
Ramos
Rebelo
Reis
Ribeiro
Rocha
Rodrigues
Romeiro
Saldanha
Salgado
Sampaio
Santiago
Sardinha
Semedo
Sequeira
Silva
Silveira
Simões
Soares
Sousa
Tavares
Taveira
Teixeira
Torres
Valente
Vasconcelos
Vasques
Vaz
Veloso
Vieira
Vilarinho