Basilio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek Basíleios, from basileús ‘king’: ‘royal, princely’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/basiljo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Basilio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 5th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.5K
- PEPeru≈1 in 5K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek Basíleios, from basileús ‘king’: ‘royal, princely’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Basilio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Basilio | 57 |
| PE Peru | #622 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Basilio | 56 |
| ES Spain | #729 | 5,249 | 1 in 9.5K | 5.7K | Basilio | 107 |
| AR Argentina | #661 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 1K | Basilio | 56 |
| MZ Mozambique | #5 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 2 | Basilio | 16 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #218 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Basilio | 22 |
| PY Paraguay | #355 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Basilio | 21 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 10 | — | 21 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Basilio 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.
In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Basil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Dal greco basileus, 're'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma ital. de Basilius; v. Basile
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Basile
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Filipino, a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Basil
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vasily Kalikab. 1201not in their usual nameRussian saint
- Basil of Trebizondb. 1315not in their usual nameEmperor of Trebizond
- Basil Valentineb. 1394DEnot in their usual namepseudonymous author
- Vasili III of Moscowb. 1479RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 to 1533
- Basilio Augustínb. 1840ESSpanish Governor-General of the Philippines
- Basilio Franchinab. 1914ITItalian film director, screenwriter and actor (1914-2003)
- Basilio Lami Dozob. 1929ARArgentine military person (1929-2017)
- Basilio Martín Patinob. 1930ESSpanish film director (1930-2017)
- Saúl Cocob. 1999ESnot in their usual nameEquatorial Guinean association football player (born 1999)
- Basilio Ndongb. 1999GQEquatorial Guinean association football player
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 64 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.7K | #373 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.2K | #848 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 10 | #252 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 8 | #2,258 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| MZ Mozambique | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #65 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #337 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Basilio mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek Basíleios, from basileús ‘king’: ‘royal, princely’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Basilio?
- In the etymology graph, Vasyl, Basil and Vasile are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Basilio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Basilio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basilio.
- How do you pronounce Basilio?
- A machine transcription gives /basiljo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Basilio a male or female name?
- Basilio 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.
- How common is the name Basilio?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,249 people named Basilio, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Basilio compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Basilio is the 5th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/basilioThe 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, “Basilio” — the 5th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.