Primo

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Italian and Spanish : from the personal name Primo, meaning ‘first’ (Latin Primus), given to the eldest son in a family, or, in the case of the Italian name, a habitational name from a place named with this word.
• Portuguese and Spanish : relationship name, from primo ‘cousin’.
• Greek (Primos) : nickname for a sailor, from Greek primos in the sense ‘favorable wind’, a derivative of Italian primo ‘first’.