Actually my full name is:

Rui Miguel Neto Marinheiro.

Everybody knows that it is impossible to translate names but we know, as well, that each name have had a different meaning in the paste. So, if you could find a meaning of my name in English that would be:

• Marinheiro: seaman, sailor, etc.
  So, as you can see, I am a 'sailor', as my Portuguese ancestors, that first made contact with half of the world (the Spaniards did it with the other half) from Brazil to Japan going through Africa and India. Most probably my surname have started as a nick name. The oldest known written reference to anyone with my surname is on the document from 1370, included in "Descobrimentos Portugueses" (Portuguese Discoveries), by João Martins da Silva Marques, in which someone named «affonso "marinheiro"» is mentioned.
  
  
• Neto: grandson.
  If you join 'grandson' and 'sailor' you could conclude that my grandfather was a sailor man. But that is not really the truth.
  Actually the truth is that in Portugal every one has two surnames. The last one is given by the father (in my case, Marinheiro). The one before is given by the mother (yes, it is Neto);
  
  
• Miguel: Michael.
  If I am not wrong the origin of my second christian name is Jewish. For what I think the meaning in Jewish is something like this: "Where is the Lord?", with the question mark on.
  
  
• Rui: Roderick.
  In Portuguese Roderick is Rodrigo, or Rui for short. However not many people know this, since the shorter version Rui as been used for many centuries along side with the longer Rodrigo. So the relation between the two names is not that clear anymore. The name Roderick (Rodrigo/Rui in Portuguese) comes from the old german and is made up of the names "hrôths" (fame, glory) and "riks" (chefe, king).
  

You might think that my name it is too long, but it can be useful when your name is too common. You will understand want I mean if you check on the telephone directory how many John Smiths you can find. In Portugal the problem would be with Antonio Silva. The other point is that it is unfair to a mother not to have her name on a child of her own. In this way (to have two surnames) it is possible to perpetuate a surname, whichever the gender, throughout the generations.

"O pai espiritual do homem que sou é a criança que fui " José Saramago, 14/10/98 - Público