 In all references about this story, he is always called Sporus, a male name, when the female would be Spora.According to the Roman naming conventions, he would gain the nomen and praenomen of his former master retaining his former name as a cognomen.In that case, assuming that it was Nero who freed him (which is not clear), his full name would be "Nero Claudius Sporus" (after "Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus").