toh-KAH-yoh[toˈkaʝo]
someone who carries the same first name as you — your namesake, and greeted as one
Closest in English: namesake, namesakes, name-twin. None of them covers it.
The trail is disputed, but the likeliest source is Classical Nahuatl tocayoh, one who has a name. In Mexico two men called Luis will greet each other as tocayo and drop the surname altogether. English keeps namesake for the formal version and stops there.
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Half placed it in Spanish straight away; most of the others went for Portuguese.
The most common guess was “twin”: close, but not it.
Of those who bet on the translation, one in three got it exactly.
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