Curcio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin Curtius, from curtus "short, stunted"; also used as a romanization of Kurt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkʊɹtʃioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Curcio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 76K
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Curtius, from curtus "short, stunted"; also used as a romanization of Kurt.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
How Curcio is read(measured from records)
Curcio is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curcio in English.
- Spanish16%
Latin Curtius, from curtus "short, stunted"; also used as a romanization of Kurt.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curcio in Portuguese.
- Italian5.6%
sobrenome meridional jocoso e depreciativo, do dialeto curcio/curciu; em algumas áreas, homem de estatura diminuta; cruzado com Curto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Curcio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Curcio | 71 |
| US United States | 4,380 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Curcio | 316 |
| BR Brazil | 2,138 | 1 in 99K | 2.1K | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 1,454 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| EG Egypt | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Curcio | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 319 | 1 in 11K | 319 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 227 | 1 in 37K | 227 | Curcio | 19 |
| EE Estonia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | — | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Giuseppe Curciob. 1752ITItalian composer
- Maria Curciob. 1918ITpianist (1918–2009)
- Dino Curciob. 1929ITItalian actor
- Renato Curciob. 1941ITRed Brigade leader
- Emanuele Curciob. 1953ITItalian footballer
- Mike Curciob. 1957USAmerican football player
- Fabrizio Curciob. 1966ITItalian government official, Head of the Civil Protection
- Anthony Curciob. 1980USAmerican criminal and motivational speaker
- Fernando Curciob. 1981UYUruguayan footballer
- Alessio Curciob. 1990ITItalian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,855 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.1K | #4,599 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 319 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 227 | #5,622 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Curcio mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Curtius, from curtus "short, stunted"; also used as a romanization of Kurt. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Curcio?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkʊɹtʃioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Curcio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Curcio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled curcio.
- How common is the name Curcio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,380 people named Curcio in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curcioThe 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, “Curcio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.