Nero

Where Nero comes from

Borrowed from Latin Nerō.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nero
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Nero through the years
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,264 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #2,699
    10 babies named Nero, its best rank.
  3. 1921
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.