Colio

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/koljo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 103K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 273K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 310K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

183 people

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Colio 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 Colio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1831 in 273K183Colio40
US United States1811 in 1.8M210Colio39
IT Italy≈120 est.≈1 in 535KlistedColio3
GT Guatemala≈55 est.≈1 in 310K—Colio3
UY Uruguay331 in 103K33Colio8
CL Chile≈21 est.≈1 in 877K—Colio2

183 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)

Colio is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Colìo

22 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado Sr. Colio,Dear Mr Colio, (English)
InformalHola Colio,Hi Colio, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Colio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020210#93,627
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—183#17,705
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—183#17,656
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010181#99,845
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000124#127,186
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—33—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Colio?
A machine transcription gives /koljo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Colio have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 183 people named Colio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colio.
Where is Colio most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Colio is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 103 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Colio?
In Spain, the national register counted 183 people named Colio, about 1 in 273 thousand 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, “Colio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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