1. Portugal has a lot of common names. João, Maria, Pedro, José, António, Joana and Nuno are very common names.
2. My family name isn’t a very common name.
3. My family name is a typical Portuguese and Spanish surname but it also may refer to a lot of places. Pimentel is a municipality in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, is one of twenty districts of the province Chiclayo in Peru and the 25th largest city in the Dominican Republic.
4. My name doesn’t refer to any trades or professions but in Portugal there are some names that mean that. Carpinteiro, Padeiro and Joalheiro are some of them for instance.
5. In Portugal foreign names aren’t very popular.
6. When we meet someone we usually use the first name.
7. We don’t usually use the surname to call someone with or without a title. Usually we use the first name but in formal/professional context we use the first name with a title (Sr., Sr.ª, Dr., Dr.ª, and Eng.).
8. The most common names that we use to show affection are querido, lindo, fofinho, príncipe, etc.