Nemo
Nemo is a given name, nickname and surname. It is Latin for "nobody", and may refer to the Outis alias that Odysseus used to trick Polyphemus in The Odyssey.
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Meaning & Origin of Nemo
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Nemo is a given name, nickname and surname. It is Latin for "nobody", and may refer to the Outis alias that Odysseus used to trick Polyphemus in The Odyssey.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Nemo
The earliest SSA record of Nemo as a baby boy name dates back to 1922, when 6 babies received it. 2021 was its biggest year on record, with 8 newborns named Nemo — #8,823 in the national rankings. About 35% of every Nemo on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Nemo last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 68 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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About the name Nemo
Nemo is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1922 and has accumulated 68 births in the dataset. Nemo's peak popularity came in 2021 when it ranked #8,823. Use the chart and map above to compare Nemo's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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