Nemo

Meaning of Nemo

Nemo originates from the classical Latin pronoun meaning “no one,” a semantic nuance that informed Jules Verne’s invention of the enigmatic Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and, by extension, embedded the name in Anglo-American literary consciousness. Subsequent cultural dissemination—most notably through Disney-Pixar’s 2003 film Finding Nemo—reframed the appellation’s associations toward themes of resilience and exploration, yet the intrinsic sense of purposeful anonymity continues to confer an understated intrigue. Phonetically concise at two syllables and rendered in English as NEE-moh (/ˈniːmoʊ/), the name has remained statistically uncommon in the United States, surfacing intermittently since 1922 and never breaching the national top 500; its recent occurrences, averaging fewer than ten newborn boys per year, suggest deliberate selection by parents seeking a technically simple yet culturally layered designation.

Pronunciation

English

• Pronunced as NEE-moh (/ˈniːmoʊ/)

• Nico
• Neo
• Nemanja