Lucio
Meaning
“Italian/Spanish form of Lucius, 'light'”
Lucio around the world
One shared root links 10 names across 5 languages.
Shared root: from Latin lux "light", through the Roman Lucius and its feminine Lucia
The constellation
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lucio peaked in the 2000s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
Popularity in Brazil
49,951 people · the #568 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 4,065 · median age 47
Among people named Lucio living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 454 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Lucio deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Lucio truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Lucio fits with your family’s names and surname.
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