Lovely!
I agree. Our deacon, a 70-ish gentleman from Puerto Rica, will often greet other men simply as “Cristiano!” I think it’s a custom of Charismatics more than others ... also, he’s getting a bit dotty and doesn’t always remember people’s names, even if he knows them well.
Yesterday he was thanking our group for the music and obviously drew a blank when he searched for my name, so he said, “Esta hermana ... y ... su esposo, el con la guitarra!” And almost everyone just calls all our sons “hermanito,” because they can’t tell them apart.