Get Your Own Brazilian Name, Right Here!

By: Laurie | December 21st, 2007

Ronaldinho. Ronaldo. Kaká. Pele. Marta.

If you’re a fan of Brazilian football, you’ve seen them. Those single names on the back of the jerseys that often have very little to do with the players’ real, given names.

(Kaká is actually Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. Personally I’d prefer that to Kaká, especially given the Tommy Smyth habit of putting the accent on the first syllable and saying things like, “How’d you like to be the one to pick up after Kaka?”)

But you’ve been envious of those single names, haven’t you? Well, guess what? Here’s your chance to get one of your own. Just plug in your own name (or somebody else’s if you want to have some fun) and let the name generator do the rest. Your Brazilian name will be shown on your very own Brazil #10 jersey.

Mine was boring, so let’s move on to our former fearless editor Bob Kellett. He’s not here anymore to defend himself, so his name is Bildo. Seriously. Like a hobbit with issues. (This is what we do to editors who leave us, Bob. We…we…make fun of their names!)

And Landon Donovan? “Lildo.” Also a hobbit with issues, but…little.

Zinedine Zidane? “Zinedininho”, of course. (Don’t try to say that if you’ve had more than a pint.)

Thierry Henry? “Haldo Santos.” (Ummm…okay?)

And what about Wayne Rooney? “Wayniano.” Cute, huh? I don’t think we should tell him, though. I can see this becoming pillow talk between he and Colleen, and I just don’t want to go there.

The funny part, though? You can’t use this with any of the Brazilian names. Try it with Ronaldo, or Pele, or Ronaldinho, and you get an error message asking for a first and a last name. I guess they have a one name per customer policy.

Enjoy!

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• mele419 |  December 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  
  
  

  Haha, here’s what I got out of my surname “Mele”

  http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9905/meliscolo6.png

  Posted from United States

  

• Corbin |  December 21st, 2007 at 2:17 pm

  
  
  

  mine is “Hinhosa”, which makes absolutely no sense to me…

  Posted from United States

  

• Laurie |  December 21st, 2007 at 2:25 pm

  
  
  

  Corbin, you now have something (that makes no sense thing) in common with Thierry Henry.

  Posted from United States

  

• Hana |  December 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pm

  
  
  

  haha, im “Hanildo”.

  Posted from United States

  

• Arvind |  December 21st, 2007 at 6:36 pm

  
  
  

  ))
  I’m Arva.The next Vava!

  Posted from Canada

  

• George |  December 21st, 2007 at 8:37 pm

  
  
  

  My name didn’t really work, but Cobi Jones is “Felix Joneca”.

  Posted from United States

  

• Shazback |  December 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am

  
  
  

  I got the crappy name “Lya”. Or I could change my official name to Shazback and become “Shazbão”. It’s a lot better!

  Posted from France

  

• timberbickle |  December 22nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm

  
  
  

  Kaka’s name, BTW, does indeed have something to do with his full name.

  You hear the KA in RiCArdo, yeah? Well, KaKa turns that sound into a pet name, sort of like calling a youngster Ricky-Rick or something like that.

  Posted from United States

  

• PocketKings |  December 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm

  
  
  

  Philipp Andrezo… not bad
  But Rojinho sounds better!

  Posted from United States

  

• jenl |  December 26th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

  
  
  

  The Ricky-Rick explanation made me think of Marky-Mark. So I put in Mark Wahlberg and got Wahlbaldo.

  Posted from United States

  

• Laurie |  December 26th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

  
  
  

  Wahlbaldo. Every sex symbol’s nightmare.

  Posted from United States

  

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