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Goan Catholic names and surnames

Goan Catholic names and surnames

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Goan Catholic names and surnames encompass the different types of names and surnames used by the Goan Catholics of Goa.

Names

Konkani language variants of most Goan Catholic names are derived from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin names from the Old and New Testament Biblical canons. Nowadays Hindu names like Sandeep, Rahul and Anita, etc. are also given. Portuguese names like António, João, Maria, Ana are also common among Goan Catholics who follow Portuguese culture. British names (e.g. Kevin, Shelley) and other European names (e.g. Benito, Heidi), which have no Konkani variants, are also popular.

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Surnames

The Portuguese surnames such as Rodrigues, Fernandes and Carvalho are commonly found among Goan Catholics after centuries of colonial rule in Portuguese Goa and Damaon, and generally follow the second declension. These Portuguese surnames are also observed among the Mangalorean Catholics, the Bombay East Indian Catholics, the Latin Catholics of Malabar, and in other Indo-Portuguese areas such as Damaon and Chaul. Portuguese surnames commonly appear across the world especially in the Lusophone countries of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Macao, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Mozambique.

Bold indicates common surnames
Italics indicates uncommon surnames

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Maffei 2001, p. 541
  2. [2]
    Maffei 2003, p. 38

References

Look up Appendix: Indian surnames (Goan Christian) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • Maffei, Angelus Francis Xavier (2001). English-Konkani Dictionary. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 81-206-0626-4. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
  • Maffei Xavier (2003). A Konkani Grammar. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 81-206-0087-8. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
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