Nepomuk (first name)

Nepomuk is a male given name that goes back to Johannes von Nepomuk , who came from Nepomuk , a city in Bohemia .

Name days

Bernard (us Placidus Johann Nepomuk) Bolzano (1781–1848), Catholic priest, philosopher and mathematician
Johannes Nepomuk (1350–1393), priest and martyr
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), composer and pianist
Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (1772–1838), inventor and mechanic
Johann Nepomuk Rust (1775–1840), Prussian general surgeon and President of the Royal Curatorium for Hospital Affairs
Johann Nepomuk Schelble (1789–1837), German conductor, singer and teacher
Johann Nepomuk Muxel (1790–1870), German lithographer and etcher
Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977), Austrian composer
Johann (Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius) Nestroy (1801–1862), Austrian actor, singer, playwright and satirist
Johannes Nepomuk Neumann (1811–1860), Bishop of Philadelphia and saint of the Catholic Church
Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek (1837–1922), Austrian polar explorer and patron of the arts
Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–1880), painter and draftsman
Maximilian Nepomuk Mutzke (* 1981), German singer, songwriter and drummer
Nepomuk "Nepo" Fitz (* 1981), German cabaret artist, singer and pianist
Nepomuk Zöllner (1923–2017), German internist

A half-dragon in the book Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver by Michael Ende .
A sculptor in the Hello Spencer puppet show .
Nepomuk Schneidewein, a child character in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus .

Hans Bahlow : German name dictionary. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4 .
Günther Drosdowski: Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names. Bibliographical Institute (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974.
Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz, Horst Leisering: Knaur's first name book. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8 .

Wiktionary: Nepomuk - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations