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Nuno

Boys' name

Possibly ninth or grandfather

Nuno has been given to 126 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 1981, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nuno, 2021

1 in 678,000

Nuno 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nuno: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly ninth or grandfather

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nuno means

Nuno may mean “ninth or grandfather”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nuno is used in Portuguese and Medieval Portuguese.

Origin, language, and formation

Nuno is used in Portuguese.

Nuno comes through Latin nonnus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Nuno is pronounced /ˈnũ.nu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 boys were recorded with the name Nuno between 1975 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,061 in 1981.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nuno?

Nuno had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nuno 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nuno. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nunos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nuno was born before 1986 — so the typical Nuno is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Nuno 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (10)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,061
1981

Spellings of Nuno

Nuno is not the most common spelling — Hugo is, with 24.5% against Nuno's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nuno is used

Across 1910–2025, Nuno was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 436,748 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nuno has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nuno around the world

Where Nuno 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1968–2025
    #1,065
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,175
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    2004–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nuno 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
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Best rank ever
#4,061
1981
Peak year
1981
10 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nuno

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

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Sibling names for Nuno

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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