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Septimus

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | Copyright

Septimus ♂ From a Late Latin name derived from Latin septimus ‘seventh’. It was fairly commonly used in large Victorian families for the seventh son or a male seventh child, but is now rare (compare Quintus, Sextus, Octavius, and Nona).

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