Claudio

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Cláudio in AO Angola, NL Netherlands and Claudius in CR Costa Rica.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

• English given name547K records spelled Claudio20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Italy, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Cláudio, Claúdio, Claudìo, Clâudio, Cláüdïö

• Italian given name105K records spelled Claudio13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

  Also written Claudius, Cláudio, Clàudio, Clàùdìò, Clauďio

• a separate given name20K records spelled Claudio3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Cláudio, Claúdio

• Catalan given name9.3K records spelled Claudio2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Andorra

  Also written Cláudio

• Polish given name8.0K records spelled Claudio26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Italy, United States, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Клаудио, Клаудіо, Claudiu, Klaudio, Claudi

• Vietnamese given name6.7K records spelled Claudio3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Spain, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

  Also written Cláudio

• Lao given name4.9K records spelled Claudio14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Italy, Chile, Thailand

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Khlao, Cláudio, คลาวด์, คลาวดิ, คลาวดี้

70 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.

Other recorded senses●

Claudio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Claudio är en spansk och italiensk form av Claudius, se → Claudia.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Forme italienne de Claude, du latin Claudius.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, männl. Vom., italienische und spa­ nische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• El que cojea

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

• Zoppo

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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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Claudio Monteverdib. 1567ITItalian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquerb. 1836ESnot in their usual nameSpanish poet
• Claudio Arraub. 1903CLChilean pianist (1903-1991)
• Lalo Schifrinb. 1932ARnot in their usual nameArgentine-American composer (1932–2025)
• Claudio Abbadob. 1933ITItalian conductor (1933–2014)
• Claudio Ranierib. 1951ITItalian footballer and manager
• Cesare Prandellib. 1957ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football player and manager
• Claudio Pizarrob. 1978PEPeruvian footballer
• Claudio Bravob. 1983CLChilean association football player
• Claudio Marchisiob. 1986ITItalian association football player

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,074 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Claudio?

We estimate roughly 349 thousand people bear Claudio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Claudio have the most bearers?

Claudio is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled claudio.

How common is Claudio compared with other names?

In Argentina, Claudio is the 120th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Claudio a male or female name?

Claudio 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.

What does the name Claudio mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Claude