Portuguese Boy Names
European and Brazilian Portuguese share many names, with some differences in spelling and everyday use. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Portuguese as José; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,678#95 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Luís; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,475#144 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Antônio; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,058#176 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 860#371 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,661#212 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 833#380 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,069#322 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1910. | 1,069#323 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1890. | 778#410 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1885. | 3,789#91 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 684#455 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Sérgio; in U.S. records from 1913. | 714#441 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Júlio; in U.S. records from 1888. | 436#641 | Down 98 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 341#756 | Down 55 rank positions in five years | 1992 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1907. | 798#399 | Up 243 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1906. | 785#406 | Up 240 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1989. | 152#1,288 | Down 211 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1915. | 28#3,910 | Up 1,050 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1982. | 192#1,117 | Up 224 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as João; in U.S. records from 1918. | 121#1,471 | Up 459 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1915. | 48#2,679 | Up 1,753 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1994. | 45#2,823 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1917. | 25#4,189 | Down 225 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1967. | 49#2,672 | Up 962 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1966. | 31#3,601 | Up 719 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1910. | 14#6,420 | Up 3,075 rank positions in five years | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1921. | 8#9,191 | Down 2,007 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2001. | 10#7,803 | Up 2,023 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1975. | 6#11,101 | new | 1992 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2016. | 31#3,588 | Up 850 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Vítor; in U.S. records from 1997. | —Unranked | — | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2003. | 13#6,512 | Up 5,819 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1975. | —Unranked | — | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2006. | —Unranked | — | 2006 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.