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Nemo - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Nemo

[ 2 syll. ne-mo, nem-o ] The boy name Nemo is pronounced NEHMow KEY. Nemo's language of origin is Latin. It is predominantly used in English, German, and Italian. Derived literally from the word nemo which is of the meaning 'nobody'. The name is known from the fictional character Captain Nemo, of the submarine Nautilus in the Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Mysterious Island (1874).

Nemo is not commonly used as a baby boy name. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Nemo include the Arabic Na'im, the English Naaman, the name Nahma, the Hebrew Nahman, the English, German, and Hebrew Nahum, the Arabic Naim, the Irish Naomhan, the Irish Naomhán, the English Neean, the English and Italian Neo, the English Newman, the Cambodian Nhean, the English Nian, the Italian Nino, the English Noa, the English, German, and Slavic Noah, the Italian Numa, the Portuguese Nuno, the Spanish Nuño, and the English and Hebrew Nuri.

KEY: Pronunciation for Nemo: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)"


 
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Meaning of Nemo