Given name & surname · also Latin
Menes
Menes is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Egyptian. It is used in English and Latin.
Original LatinMēnēs
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Menes comes from Latin, and ultimately from Egyptian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Latin usage, Menes developed from mnj.
Menes’s family of names
In Latin usage, Menes developed from mnj. In English usage, Menes has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Menés. In English usage, Menes has a conventional equivalent in the French form Ménès.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Menes has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Egyptian roots to each of them.
Egyptianwhere Menes comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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