Short Portuguese Boy Names
European and Brazilian Portuguese share many names, with some differences in spelling and everyday use. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. 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 André; in U.S. records from 1880. | 868#368 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 837#378 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Tomás; in U.S. records from 1880. | 394#691 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 351#740 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1922. | —Unranked | — | 1977 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Ítalo; in U.S. records from 1911. | 11#7,364 | Up 954 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1969. | 27#4,020 | Up 3,387 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1972. | 8#9,313 | Up 3,782 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1968. | 15#6,073 | Up 2,506 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1917. | 29#3,820 | Up 1,805 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2004. | 7#10,192 | Down 2,936 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Hélio; in U.S. records from 1972. | 17#5,468 | Up 2,246 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Túlio; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1983. | 8#9,535 | Up 852 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Célio; in U.S. records from 1997. | 6#10,911 | new | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2002. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Kauã; in U.S. records from 2006. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Zé; in U.S. records from 1999. | —Unranked | — | 1999 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1889. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Simão; in U.S. records from 2008. | —Unranked | — | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2019. | —Unranked | — | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Cauã; in U.S. records from 2006. | —Unranked | — | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2002. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2021. | —Unranked | — | 2021 |
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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.