Lió
given name · Latin script
Meaning: superseded spelling of lio, deprecated in 2010 (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lió is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 42K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 53Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Macao, 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 Lio in MX Mexico, US United States, BR Brazil 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(measured from records)superseded spelling of lio, deprecated in 2010
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lió is found
(measured from records)Lió 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 24 | Lio | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Lio | 19 |
| MO Macao | #189 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Lio | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 225K | 11 | Lio | 64 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 398K | 196 | Lio | 49 |
| US United States | — | 516 | 1 in 645K | 516 | Lio | 84 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Lio | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 2 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lió is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, Lyon, Lyons (the capital city of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lió mean, and where does it come from?
- superseded spelling of lio, deprecated in 2010 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lió a male or female name?
- Lió 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lió?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Lió in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lio. After it come Malaysia, Macao, Mexico and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lió?
- In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Lió in 2010, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
- How common is Lió compared with other names?
- In Macao, Lió is the 189th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lió?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%C3%B3The 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, “Lió” — ranked 460th in Italy (ISTAT). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.