Sextus

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 253 words | Copyright

Sextus ♂ Traditional Latin given name, meaning ‘sixth’. It was taken up in England during the Victorian period, often for a sixth son or a male sixth child, but it is now little used (compare Quintus, Septimus, Octavius, and Nona).

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