Decimus

Decimus was an ancient Roman given name ( praenomen ). In Latin it means something like “the tenth” or “the one born in the tenth month / December ”. On inscriptions the name was abbreviated with a D.

Well-known namesake

Antiquity

• Decimus Junius Brutus (consul 77 BC) (around 120 BC – after 63 BC), Roman politician
• Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (around 81 BC – 43 BC), Roman politician and soldier, one of the conspirators against Caesar
• Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus , Roman politician, consul 138 BC. Chr.
• Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva (consul 325 BC) , Roman politician
• Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva (Consul 292 BC) , Roman politician
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis , Roman satirical poet, see Juvenal
• Decimus Laberius (105 BC – 43 BC), Roman knight and mime poet
• Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (~ 5 BC – 47 AD), Roman politician and senator

Modern times

• Decimus Burton (1800–1881), English architect and landscape architect