Fio
loc · Latin script
Meaning: strand, wire (A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: ANE, 2025
Fio is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 42 (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)strand, wire
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fio 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 81 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 58 | — | 26 |
| HR Croatia | — | 29 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | 3 | — | — |
| CF Central African Republic | — | 1 | — | 2 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). 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)Fio 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 Portuguese, thread
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, the official for orders “there’s to your health,” (at feast)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Tongan, to mix, mix together, mingle (as with other people in a crowd)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, Initialism of field interrogation and observation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, third-person singular preterite indicative of fiar
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fio mean, and where does it come from?
- strand, wire Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Fio have the most bearers?
- Fio is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Fio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fioThe 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, “Fio” — ranked 74062nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.