Lïö
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lïö is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: most likely a variant of Leo, from a local form (compare De Leo), but possibly also from a reduced form of a name such as Leonardo, Leopardo, or from Greek leios ‘smooth’, ‘glossy’, presumably applied.
- MOMacao≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 42K
- ITItaly≈1 in 44K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Macao, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lio in US United States, MY Malaysia, VN Vietnam and 4 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)
most likely a variant of Leo, from a local form (compare De Leo), but possibly also from a reduced form of a name such as Leonardo, Leopardo, or from Greek leios ‘smooth’, ‘glossy’, presumably applied as a nickname.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lïö 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Lio | 32 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 24 | Lio | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Lio | 19 |
| US United States | — | 516 | 1 in 645K | 516 | Lio | 84 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Lio | 27 |
| MO Macao | #189 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Lio | 7 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Lio | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lïö mean, and where does it come from?
- most likely a variant of Leo, from a local form (compare De Leo), but possibly also from a reduced form of a name such as Leonardo, Leopardo, or from Greek leios ‘smooth’, ‘glossy’, presumably applied… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 3 other sources.
- Is Lïö a male or female name?
- Lïö 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.
- In which country does Lïö have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Lïö in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lio.
- How common is the name Lïö?
- In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Lïö in 2010, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
- How common is Lïö compared with other names?
- In Macao, Lïö is the 189th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AF%C3%B6The 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, “Lïö” — the 189th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.