Nuno is a boy's name of Portuguese origin meaning “ancestor.” In England & Wales it was given to 4 boys in 2024.
Nuno at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Portuguese
Meaning
“ancestor”
About the name Nuno
Nuno belongs to the Portuguese tradition. Its meaning — “ancestor” — is the sense carried by its Portuguese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Nuno first appears in Social Security records in 1975. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4062 in 1981, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 126 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.