Given name · also Latin
Péricles
“far-famed”
Péricles is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Péricles goes back to Ancient Greek Περικλῆς, meaning “far-famed.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Péricles comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Péricles developed from Περικλῆς.
Péricles’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Péricles developed from the Ancient Greek form Περικλῆς. In Portuguese usage, Péricles has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Περικλής.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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.
People named Péricles
- Péricles ChamuscaBrazilian association football player and managerborn 1965
- PériclesBrazilian association football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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