Given name
Nectarios
“of the nectar; one who is immortal”
Nectarios is a variant of Neckarios. One Greek interpretation is “of the nectar; one who is immortal.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nectarios is a variant of Neckarios. One Greek interpretation is “of the nectar; one who is immortal.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nectarios is a variant of Neckarios. An origin associated with Neckarios is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nectarios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1977.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nectarios’s family of names
Nectarios has a related form in Neckarios.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nectarios
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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