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Nektarios

Boys' name

Nectar, drink of the gods

Nektarios has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nektarios, 2024

1 in 371,000

Nektarios over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nektarios: meaning, origin, and history

Nectar, drink of the gods

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nektarios means

Nektarios means “nectar, drink of the gods”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nektarios is used in Greek and Late Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 73 boys were recorded with the name Nektarios between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,769 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nektarios?

Nektarios had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nektarios sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nektarios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nektarioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nektarios was born before 2019 — so the typical Nektarios is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Nektarios rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (9)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,769
1976

Nektarios around the world

Where Nektarios ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1970–1983
    #443
    in 1983

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nektarios by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,769
1976
Peak year
2014
9 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
73
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nektarios

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nektarios

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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