Livio

• Spanish:/liβjo/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Portuguese:/libju/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/ˈli.vjo/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Livio is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish30%

  Latin Livius, Roman gens name, perhaps from līvidus ‘bluish, pale, livid’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• French18%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Livio in French.

• Portuguese17%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Livio in Portuguese.

• Italian16%

  Latino Livius; nome di una gens romana, probabilmente da liveo 'esser livido'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  Cognome di una gente romana, probabilmente dal verbo liveo, esser livido. Xon è di Santo. Per il cogn. toscano Livi B più probabile la deriva- zione d a Oliso.

  as a name·Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

• English9.3%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Livio in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Livio is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland

  Also written Lívio, Liviõ, Lìvìo

• Italian given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Canada

  Also written Ĺivio, Livìò, Lìviö, Lívio

• Croatian given name15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, Ukraine, Finland

  Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Ливио, Лівіо, Lívio

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Lívio

• Polish given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Italy, United States

  Also written Lívio

• Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, India, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Lívio

• Danish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, United States

  Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Lívio

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Livio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Pálido

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Līvius

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Livio Castiglionib. 1911ITItalian architect and designer (1911–1979)
• Livio Lorenzonb. 1923ITItalian actor (1923-1971)
• Berruttib. 1939ITnot in their usual nameItalian sprinter (1939–2026)

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).

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.

66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Livio a male or female name?

Livio is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024), Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.

What does the name Livio mean, and where does it come from?

Latin Livius, Roman gens name, perhaps from līvidus ‘bluish, pale, livid’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.

What are other forms of the name Livio?

In the etymology graph, Liviu, Livy and Livius are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Livio?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /liβjo/; in Portuguese /libju/; in Italian /ˈli.vjo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

How common is the name Livio?

In Brazil, the national register counted 2,602 people named Livio in 2022, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.

How common is Livio compared with other names?

In the Dominican Republic, Livio is the 825th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.

Which countries have the most people named Livio?

Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Livio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled livio. After it come Brazil, Switzerland, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.