Livio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin Livius, Roman gens name, perhaps from līvidus ‘bluish, pale, livid’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/liβjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Livio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 33K
- BRBrazil1 in 81K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Livius, Roman gens name, perhaps from līvidus ‘bluish, pale, livid’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Livio is read(measured from records)
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 nameDiccionario 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 nameDizionario 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 nameNomi 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Livio 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 | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 57 | Livio | 60 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,602 | 1 in 81K | 3K | Livio | 86 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 8.7K | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | #886 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 167 | Livio | 65 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 422 | Livio | 48 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #825 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Livio | 17 |
| HR Croatia | — | 431 | 1 in 9.8K | 431 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Livio | 16 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
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 nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Pálido
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Līvius
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Livio Pavanellib. 1881ITItalian actor (1881-1958)
- Livio Castiglionib. 1911ITItalian architect and designer (1911–1979)
- Livio Dante Portab. 1922ARArgentinean steam locomotive designer (1922–2003)
- Livio Lorenzonb. 1923ITItalian actor (1923-1971)
- Livio Maitanb. 1923ITItalian Trotskyist leader (1923-2004)
- Livio Trapèb. 1937ITOlympic cyclist
- Berruttib. 1939ITnot in their usual nameItalian sprinter (1939–2026)
- Livio Nababb. 1988FRGuadeloupean footballer
- Livio Jean-Charlesb. 1993FRFrench basketball player (born 1993)
- Livio Wengerb. 1993CHSwiss speed skater and inline speed skater
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 66 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 8.7K | #90 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3K | #4,683 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #4,300 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 431 | #802 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 354 | — |
| CH Switzerland | FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung | 2024 | 167 | #24 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 98 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 57 | #251 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2022 | 3 | #3,930 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 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.
- Is Livio a male or female name?
- Livio 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.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Livio?
- A machine transcription gives /liβjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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.
- In which country does Livio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Livio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled livio.
What do you want to know about Livio?
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/livioThe 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, “Livio” — the 825th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.