Curio
loc · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular present indicative of curiar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Curio is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)first-person singular present indicative of curiar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Curio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 170 | — | 95 |
| AR Argentina | — | 89 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 76 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 11 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | — | 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Curio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, the priest of a curia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, curium
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)- Curio Lancellotto Pasib. 1450ITItalian grammarian (15th-16th century)
- Jakob Curiob. 1497DEGerman mathematician
- Valentin Curiob. 1500FRSwiss-German printer in Basel, active 1520-1532
- Curio Barbasetti di Prunb. 1885ITItalian general (1885–1962)
- Oskar Curiob. 1918DEGerman navy officer and world war II U-boat commander (1918-1981)
- Eberhard Curiob. 1932DEGerman ornithologist
- Gottfried Curiob. 1960DEGerman politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 170 | #110,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 150 | #116,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 76 | #77,671 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #69,497 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Curio mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of curiar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Curio have the most bearers?
- Curio is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Curio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curioThe 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, “Curio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.