Given name

Nereos

Nereos is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Nereos is a variant of Nereus. An origin associated with Nereus is Greek.

Explained through its name family

The story

Nereos is a variant of Nereus. The history of Nereus gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Nereus is associated with the father of the Nereids, the sea nymphs.

Explained through its name family

Nereos’s family of names

Nereos has a related form in Nereus.

Walk Nereos’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

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Mythological

Nerthos

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Mythological

Nemysys

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Mythological

Nemysiss

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Mythological

Nemisyss

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Mythological

Nemysyss

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Latin · Mythological

Nerio

Nerio is a surname, probably from Spanish, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

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92% boys · 8% girls

Mythological

Nerthous

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German · Mythological

Nerthus

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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