Given name
Sextus
“the sixth-born child”
Sextus is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “the sixth-born child.”
Original LatinSex.
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “the sixth-born child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
Sextus’s family of names
Sextus shares a linguistic root with Sisto. Sextus has a related form in Sixto. Sextus shares a linguistic root with Sesto.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sextus has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Sextus comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sextus
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