Lucio

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lucius in CO Colombia and Lúcio in AO Angola.

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◐

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

• English given name171K records spelled Lucio13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Lúcio, Lució, Luçio, Ļucio, Lucío

• French given name14K records spelled Lucio14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Lúcio, Lùcïo, Luçio, Luçío, Lųçįo

• a separate given name10K records spelled Lucio4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, Italy

  Also written Lúcio, Lució, Lucío

• Lao given name1.5K records spelled Lucio17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Thailand, Italy

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written ลีซุย, ลูซี่ย์, ลี่ซุ้ย, Luti, Lüciö

• Swahili given name1.2K records spelled Lucio5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Kenya, Philippines

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Lució, Lúcio

• Croatian given name890 records spelled Lucio21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, Italy, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Lučio, Lusio, Lućio, Luçio, Лучио

• Russian given name792 records spelled Lucio17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Italy, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Лусио, Луцио, Luzio, Лучіо, Lusio

67 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●

Lucio 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.

• patronymic from the Latin personal name Lucius, a derivative of lux ‘light’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• From Lucius, a Roman personal name probably derived from Jux ‘light’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Portuguese, an ancient Roman personal name probably derived from lux light, gen. lucis). The name was borne by a large number of early Christian saints, and was accordingly moderately popular in the Middle Ages.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In Spanish, pike (any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Latín Lucius, de lux ‘luz’; ‘nacido a la luz del sol’.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lucius Ib. 200ITnot in their usual namePope and bishop of Rome from 253 to 254
• Lucius IIb. 1050ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
• Lucius IIIb. 1110ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1181 to 1185 (1110–1185)
• Antonio Vivaldib. 1678ITnot in their usual nameItalian composer and violinist (1678–1741)
• Rube Goldbergb. 1883USnot in their usual nameAmerican cartoonist (1883–1970)
• Lucio Fontanab. 1899ITItalian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist, Manifiesto blanco, Spatialism (1899-1968)
• Lúcio Costab. 1902BRBrazilian architect (1902–1998)
• Lucio Fulcib. 1927ITItalian filmmaker (1927–1996)
• Lucio Dallab. 1943ITItalian singer-songwriter (1943-2012)
• Lucio Luizb. 1978BRBrazilian journalist, editor and comic book writer

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 · 958 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lucio?

We estimate roughly 69 thousand people bear Lucio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Lucio have the most bearers?

Lucio is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled lucio.

How common is Lucio compared with other names?

In Argentina, Lucio is the 381st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Lucio a male or female name?

Lucio 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 Lucio mean?

Recorded meaning: From Latin lux, 'light'; variant of Luc.