Given name & surname · also Latin

Meto

Meto is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in English, Albanian, and Latin.

Original LatinMetōn

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Meto comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

Meto is a diminutive of Mehmet. In English usage, Meto developed from Μέτων.

Meto’s family of names

Meto is a diminutive of Mehmet. In English usage, Meto developed from the Ancient Greek form Μέτων. In Latin usage, Meto has a related form in Metōn.

Walk Meto’s family in the name graph

MetoΜέτοMehmetMetōnΜέτωνMěto

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Meto has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greekwhere Meto comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

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 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Meto, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Ancient Greek

Keto

Keto is a unisex given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in German and Finnish.

No U.S. birth series

88% boys · 12% girls

Ancient Greek

Mëhill

Mëhill is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Albanian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Miró

Miró is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Spanish and Catalan.

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>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Meletie

“care, attention”

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>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Melissus

Melissus is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latin.

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Ancient Greek

Macor

Macor is a surname from Friulian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Italian.

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Ancient Greek

Menelaus

Menelaus is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in English and Latin.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Maftei

Maftei is a surname from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Romanian.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Meto’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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