Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
In mythological stories, Neptune is associated with the god of the sea.
Neptune through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,453 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,453 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,642 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Neptune’s family of names
Neptune has a feminine form in Neptunine. Neptune has a related form in Neptoon. Neptune has a related form in Neptoone.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 Neptune
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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