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Name Nestor

Meaning:

the homecoming

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About the name Nestor in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	German
Topics:	Asteroid 659 Nestor, discovered 1908
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Nestore, Astor, Ester, Hector, Héctor, Heitor, Hektor, Hester, Lester, Mentor Details

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About Nestor, the group of names with the same origin as Nestor

Meaning/translation:	the homecoming
Language of origin:	Old Greek
Info about origin:	Nestor is a Greek hero in the Ilias and the Odyssey
	the name probably derives from Greek nostos (homecoming)
Words:	nostos = homecoming Old Greek
Topics:	Greek mythology
Variants' top ranks:	609:Nestor USA 1993

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Popularity lists that contain the name Nestor

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades		1990-1999 641
USA yearly	Graph	2007 946, 2006 934, 2005 827, 2004 878, 2003 891, 2002 847, 2001 776, 2000 727, 1999 681, 1998 726, 1997 746, 1996 684, 1995 655, 1994 630, 1993 609