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ROBERTO
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
PRONOUNCED: ro-BER-to (Italian, Spanish)   [key]
Meaning & History
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of ROBERT. Saint Roberto Bellarmine was a 16th-century cardinal who is regarded as a Doctor of the Church. Another famous bearer was Roberto de Nobili, a Jesuit missionary to India in the 17th century.
Related Names
FEMININE FORMS: Roberta (Italian), Roberta (Spanish)
OTHER LANGUAGES: Robert, Hrodebert, Hrodpreht (Ancient Germanic), Roparzh (Breton), Robert (Croatian), Robert (Czech), Robert, Bob, Brecht, Rob, Robbe, Robin, Robrecht, Rupert (Dutch), Robert, Bob, Bobbie, Bobby, Rob, Robbie, Robby, Robin, Rupert (English), Roopertti, Pertti, Roope (Finnish), Robert (French), Robert, Rupert, Ruprecht (German), Róbert, Robi (Hungarian), Róbert (Icelandic), Roibeard (Irish), Roberts (Latvian), Hob, Hopkin (Medieval English), Robert, Rupert (Polish), Robert (Romanian), Robert (Russian), Robert (Scandinavian), Raibeart, Rab, Rabbie (Scottish), Robert (Slovene), Robin (Swedish), Hopcyn (Welsh)
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