Génio

surname · Latin script

Meaning: temperament

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Génio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

4 people, 2024

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Genio in FR France, PH Philippines, US United States and 1 more.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

temperament

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Génio 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.

Where Génio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—2
FR France———Genio36
PH Philippines———Genio14
US United States——listedGenio22
IT Italy——listedGenio5

4 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Génio is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, Spain, United States

    Also written Genio, Gênio, Gêñîö, Gęnïo, Geñio

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Genio, Gênio

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Genio, Gênio

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Genio, Генйо

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Genio, Geñio, Gênio

2 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(measured from records)

Génio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, genius

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, reintegrationist spelling of xenio

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Génio under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Génio mean, and where does it come from?
temperament Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Génio have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 4 people named Génio, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Génio most common?
Génio is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Génio?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Génio in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Génio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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