Nuno
A Germanic name meaning "ninth". In Poland it stays rare: only about 111 men carry it, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Nuno Pronunciation
Nuno is pronounced NOO-no (/ˈnunɔ/).
What Nuno means
Where Nuno comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nuno comes from a Germanic root, and its oldest reading is a plain one: ninth. In some families the name marked the ninth child, given by count more than by wish. That numeric sense sits under the softer meaning Polish speakers attach to it, where nuno suggests a small child, a little one.
The name stayed rare in Poland. It never grew the crop of diminutives that a Polish name usually collects, and it has no cross-gender partner. A teacher reading a class register might pause at it, unsure whether to stress the first syllable or the second.
Nuno also lives on as a common name in Portugal, where a medieval knight, Nuno Álvares Pereira, won the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385 and was later canonized in 2009. The Polish and Portuguese lines meet only in sound. What survives under the name is the count that started it. Ninth.
How many people are named Nuno
1 in 192308 men in Poland is named Nuno. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3243 among male names.
Nuno as a middle name
Nuno is a first name for 111 men in Poland and a middle name for another 48, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1102nd, between Nils (48) and Rosario (48).
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#1100 Jurgen48
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#1101 Nils48
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#1102 Nuno48
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#1103 Rosario48
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#1104 Sunil48