Ovidio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ovid
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oβiðjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ovidio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.1K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 5.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ovid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ovidio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #637 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 2 | Ovidio | 70 |
| AR Argentina | #717 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 69 | Ovidio | 54 |
| VE Venezuela | #709 | 3,858 | 1 in 7.4K | 3.9K | Ovidio | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,236 | 1 in 65K | 5K | Ovidio | 69 |
| US United States | — | 2,649 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Ovidio | 208 |
| SV El Salvador | #200 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Ovidio | 36 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Ovidio | 29 |
| PY Paraguay | #346 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Ovidio | 23 |
| HN Honduras | #163 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Ovidio | 17 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 28 | — | 32 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Ovidio 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 Spanish, Latín: de ouis 'oveja'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Allevatore di pecore
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Ovidius
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)
- Ovidio Rebaudib. 1860PYParaguayan chemist and writer
- Cátulo Castillob. 1906ARnot in their usual nameArgentine poet and composer (1906-1975)
- Ovidio Larib. 1919ITItalian Catholic bishop (1919-2007)
- Ovídio Martinsb. 1928CVCape Verdean poet (1928-1999)
- Ovidio Bolognesib. 1931ITItalian golfer (1931-2016)
- Ovidio G. Assonitisb. 1943EGEgyptian show business executive, film producer, screenwriter, and film director
- Ovidio Mezzab. 1952BOBolivian association football player (1952-2017)
- Ovidio Guzmán Lópezb. 1990MXMexican drug lord (born 1990)
- Ovib. 1995CUnot in their usual nameCuban rapper
- Alfio Oviedob. 1995PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5K | #3,379 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5K | #1,243 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 3.9K | #331 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.2K | #3,686 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,133 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 1.1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Ovidio mean, and where does it come from?
- Ovid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ovidio?
- In the etymology graph, Owidiusz is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ovidio?
- A machine transcription gives /oβiðjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ovidio a male or female name?
- Ovidio 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 Ovidio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Ovidio in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ovidio.
- How common is the name Ovidio?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 3,858 people named Ovidio, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ovidio compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Ovidio is the 637th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ovidio?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ovidioThe 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, “Ovidio” — the 637th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.