Given name
Vinícius
Vinícius is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Vinícius comes from Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Vīnicius, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō, built from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- + *-ō.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vinícius’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Vinícius has a diminutive in VINI. In Portuguese usage, Vinícius has a related form in Vinicius. In Portuguese usage, Vinícius has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Vinicio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Vinícius
- Vinícius JúniorBrazilian association football player (born 2000)
- Vinícius AraújoBrazilian association football playerborn 1993
- Vinícius SouzaBrazilian footballerborn 1999
- Limaassociation football playerborn 1996
- Vinícius MatheusBrazilian association football playerborn 1994
- VinaBrazilian association football playerborn 1991
- Vinícius RangelBrazilian cyclistborn 2001
- Vinícius BergantinBrazilian footballerborn 1980
- Vinícius Silvestreassociation football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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