Flavio

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Flavio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Dal lat. Flavius, da flāvus 'biondo'; nome di una gens romana.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 860(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.7K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.9K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

246,290 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
285 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 860 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FlavioLatin(measured from records)
ΦλαβιοGreek(measured from records)

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)

Dal lat. Flavius, da flāvus 'biondo'; nome di una gens romana.

Sources 1

  • Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Flavio 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 Flavio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#118246,2901 in 860267KFlavio238
IT Italy#418≈33,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K634Flavio165
PE Peru#490≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Flavio78
AR Argentina#570≈11,000 est.≈1 in 4.2K7Flavio113
EC Ecuador#29810,1761 in 1.7K10KFlavio46
AL Albania—1,3201 in 2.3K1.3K—1

246,290 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)

Flavio is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Flávio

  • Russian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Russia, Italy, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Флавио, Флавіо, Flávio, Flaviu, Флавиу

  • Croatian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Флавио, Flávio, Flàvìò

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Flávio

58 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Flavio 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 Italian, dal latino Flavius, da flavus 'biondo, dorato'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, Cognome di una gente romana chi! diede iiiia serie di imperatori. Da flaaus = biondo. La forma popo- lare dovrebbe essere Fiovo, che si trova nei O Reali di Francia u. Cogn. Flaviuz. Flehuz. Flebus (friulani). Dal n. d. 1. Flaibano (Flavianus) cogn. Flaibani.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  • In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • De cabellos rubios

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Dorato

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

12001400160018002000Flavio Biondo, b. 1388Flavio Mogherini, b. 1922Flavio Cotti, b. 1939Flavio Bucci, b. 1947Flavio Briatore, b. 1950Flavio Cattaneo, b. 1963Flavio Insinna, b. 1965Flavio Soares, b. 1973Flavio Parenti, b. 1979Flavio Cipolla, b. 1983

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)

Attested in 75 sources across 40 countries.

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Flavio mean, and where does it come from?
Dal lat. Flavius, da flāvus 'biondo'; nome di una gens romana. Recorded by Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
What are other forms of the name Flavio?
In the etymology graph, Flaviano, Flavius and Flaviu are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Flavio a male or female name?
Flavio 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.
In which country does Flavio have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 246 thousand people named Flavio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flavio.
Where is Flavio most common?
Flavio is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 860 people carrying it.
How common is the name Flavio?
In Brazil, the national register counted 246,290 people named Flavio in 2022, about 1 in 860 residents.
How common is Flavio compared with other names?
In Brazil, Flavio is the 118th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Flavio?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flavio

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Flavio” — the 118th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Flavio parses inside a full name →