For those that don't know Portuguese first names, and particularly, XV-XIX
centuries names, I think it's useful to select some curiosities:
Ventura = can be a female name (= "venture, happiness, fortune") or a male
(short for Boaventura, Saint Bonaventura, a canonized Franciscan friar)
Gracia = can be a female name (= "grace", from Latin Gratia, and sometimes
synonym of Engracia, from "in gratia"), but also a male name, an older
variation of Garcia (originally a common Iberic first name, turned into a
patronymic surname). The same phonetic variation is found in pairs
Barcelos/Bracelos, Curvelo/Cruvelo/Curuvelo/Coruvelo/Corvelo,
Carvalho/Cravalho, Cardoso/Cradoso. Other possible variants: Rosario/Rosairo,
Beatriz/Brites/Breitiz/Breatiz, -is, Iria/Hiria/Eiria/Hyria, Gomes/Guomes,
Gaspar/Guaspar, Gabriel/Graviel/Garaviel/Grabiel.
There's a lot of written variations of all names, without etymological
explanation. We can found Ascensao/Ascençao/Assensao, the correct being
Ascensao (with tilde). We can foun "sinco" instead of "cinco"; "ceis" instead
of "seis"; "sento" instead of "cento"; Roxa/Rocha, Machado/Maxado. Sometimes we
can found the variaton in the same register. I prefer to standardized all these
names when put them into my database, to prevent a crazy difficulty in
research. For example, Felipe can be with F or Ph; e or i; L or LL; i or y; P
or PP = 2 x 2x 2x2x2 = 32 variants!
JS Lopes
Rio, Brasil
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