Given name & surname
Nuno
“grandfather”
Nuno is a masculine given name, possibly from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinNunnus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nuno goes back to Latin Nunnus, meaning “grandfather.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nuno through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 126 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 10 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 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 988 as a first name in 2020; 6,334 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.
Nuno’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Nuno has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Nunnus. In Portuguese usage, Nuno has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Nuño.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nuno
- Nuno MendesPortuguese footballer (born 2002)
- Nuno GomesPortuguese footballer (born 1976)
- Nuno Espírito SantoPortuguese footballer and manager (born 1974)
- Nuno ValentePortuguese footballerborn 1974
- Nuno GonçalvesPortuguese artist (1425–1492)
- Nuno Gomes NabiamPrime Minister of Guinea-Bissauborn 1966
- Nuno Álvares PereiraPortuguese nobleman1360–1431
- Nuno TavaresPortuguese association football playerborn 2000
- Nuno BettencourtPortuguese guitaristborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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