Sílvio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/silbju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sílvio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 70th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 638(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 763
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 638 (inferred from the name graph)
119,498 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, 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 Silvio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, IT Italy and 2 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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sílvio 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.
119,498 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sílvio Caldasb. 1908BRBrazilian singer
- Sílvio Torresb. 1946BRBrazilian politician
- Sílvio Criciúmab. 1971BRfootballer
- Sílvio José Canutob. 1977BRBrazilian association football player
- Silvio Guindaneb. 1983BRBrazilian actor
- Sílvio Escobarb. 1986PYParaguayan-born Indonesian footballer
- Sílvio Manuel Pereirab. 1987PTPortuguese footballer
- Sílvio Silas da Silva Walengab. 1988BRBrazilian association football player
- Sílvio Rodrigues Pereira Júniorb. 1994BRBrazilian association football player
- Silvio Goskovaactor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 141K | #347 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sílvio mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sílvio?
- A machine transcription gives /silbju/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Sílvio a male or female name?
- Sílvio 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 are other forms of the name Sílvio?
- In the etymology graph, Silviu and Silvijo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sílvio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Sílvio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silvio.
- How common is the name Sílvio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 119,498 people named Sílvio in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sílvio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Sílvio is the 206th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sílvio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%ADlvioThe 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, “Sílvio” — the 206th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.