MEANING & HISTORY
What does Homer mean?
Homer comes through Latin Homerus from Greek Homeros, traditionally connected with a word for hostage or pledge. The ancient poet associated with the Iliad and Odyssey is the central cultural namesake.
Questions about the poet’s biography do not make modern namesake records biographies of him. The Greek personal-name source is distinct from the ordinary English sporting word homer.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Wiktionary / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Latin / Greek
Dictionary accounts by language
English
From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Homer
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Homer Se
Filipino basketball player
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Homer T. Saquilayan
Filipino politician
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
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- Honey♀Honey; an English affectionate word name
- Hope♀Hope; English virtue name
- Howie♂Familiar form of Howard
- Summer♀The summer season
Explore Homer further
Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 6 elected-candidate records ·
HOMER
· CSV row 5,446 · ODbL 1.0 - Wikidata
- 3 person records with this given name · Q19826483 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata given-name item Q19826483 — Homer (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Homer Se (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Homer T. Saquilayan (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Homer (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Homer (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: homer (opens in a new tab)