Zeno
Zeno is a boy name of Greek origin, meaning Gift of Zeus.
What Zeno means
Gift of Zeus.
Zeno is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Zeno comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Zeno is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Zeno?
In the boy name rankings we track, Zeno falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Zeno
We group Zeno under Gift. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Gift
Names like Zeno
These share Zeno's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Theo — Gift of God; divine.
- Theodore — Gift of God.
- Dorothy — Gift of God.
- Eudora — Good gift.
- Isadora — Gift of Isis.
- Isidore — Gift of Isis.
- Pandora — All-gifted.
- Theodora — Gift of God.
- Theodosia — Gift of God.
- Mateo — Gift of God.
- Mathias — Gift of God.
- Matthew — Gift of God.