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In Latin, no, but in Italian there is the rare Nunzio, from Latin nuntius (medieval Latin nuncius), messenger or envoy. True Latin praenomen are rare, since only a very few were used — most Romans were known by a combination of family names (e.g. Cornelius, Julius or Claudius) many of which were not even Latin, since prominent families from throughout Italy and later the wider Empire were represented, or cognomen acquired later in life (e.g. Augustus, Tacitus). Whereas in Celtic or Germanic there are tens of thousands of personal names possible, "By the early Republic, about three dozen Latin praenomina remained in use, some of which were already rare; about eighteen were used by the patricians. Barely a dozen praenomina remained in general use under the Empire … [and] the proliferation of personal cognomina eventually rendered women's praenomina obsolete."