What language might “Am John by name” be from?

Someone I don’t know wrote to me and when introducing themselves, said “Am John by name.” This sounded like it might possibly be a translation of the speaker’s native language—it doesn’t sound like a common way of speaking English. Is this an obvious grammatical pattern to anyone? The person claimed to be know Portuguese.

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