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Nato Nato — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-toh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Georgian)

A name that means "light".

Nato is from the Georgian ნათო (Nato) — diminutive of Natela (light) — Georgian feminine name. Nato is one of the Georgian feminine names — central to traditional Georgian Orthodox heritage.

Light.

The name in its native script.

ნათო
Transliteration
Nato
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑː.toʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nato stands.

Nato does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Natos before her.

Real people
Nato Vachnadze
Georgian-Soviet silent film actress + Eliso 1928.
1904 – 1953
In fiction
Nato
Georgian light.

Names connected to Nato.

The number behind Nato.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nato reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.