Lúcio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: northern pike (Esox lucius, a large freshwater of Europe)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lusju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lúcio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 22nd most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 998(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 998 (inferred from the name graph)
49,951 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lucio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PE Peru and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
northern pike (Esox lucius, a large freshwater of Europe)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lúcio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #292 | 49,951 | 1 in 4.2K | 56K | Lucio | 180 |
| PE Peru | #241 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 998 | — | Lucio | 67 |
| IT Italy | #359 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 204 | Lucio | 172 |
| AR Argentina | #374 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 688 | Lucio | 124 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Lucio | 40 |
| BO Bolivia | #22 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Lucio | 36 |
| PY Paraguay | #223 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Lucio | 23 |
49,951 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Enrique Gasparb. 1842ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1842-1902)
- Lúcio Cardosob. 1913BRBrazilian novelist, playwright, and poet (1913–1968)
- Lúcio Larab. 1929AOAngolan politician (1929-2016)
- Lúcio Alcântarab. 1943BRBrazilian politician
- Lúcio Antunesb. 1966CVCape Verdean association football manager
- Lucenilde Pereira da Silvab. 1975BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Lúcio Carlos Cajueiro Souzab. 1979BRBrazilian footballer
- Lúcio Teófilo da Silvab. 1984BRBrazilian footballer
- Lúcio Maranhãob. 1988BRBrazilian footballer
- Luiz Lúcio Reis Júniorb. 2001BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 56K | #730 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lúcio mean, and where does it come from?
- northern pike (Esox lucius, a large freshwater of Europe) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lúcio?
- In the etymology graph, Lucius, Lucjusz and Loukios are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lúcio?
- A machine transcription gives /lusju/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Lúcio a male or female name?
- Lúcio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lúcio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Lúcio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lucio.
- How common is the name Lúcio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 49,951 people named Lúcio in 2022, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Lúcio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lúcio is the 292nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lúcio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BAcioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lúcio” — the 292nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.