Plínio

given name · Latin script

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

Plínio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Pliny.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 17K
  • COColombia≈1 in 24K

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)

12,744 people, 2022

Sources
142 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Panama, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Plinio in BR Brazil, PE Peru, CO Colombia and 3 more.

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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Pliny

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Plínio 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 Plínio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—12,7441 in 17K16KPlinio142
CO Colombia—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 24K2Plinio47
DO Dominican Republic#511≈1,300 est.≈1 in 8.3K—Plinio17
EC Ecuador—8241 in 21K824Plinio19
PE Peru—≈800 est.≈1 in 40K—Plinio31
PA Panama#534≈510 est.≈1 in 7.7K3Plinio23

12,744 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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Plínio 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 Plinio

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Paraguay

    Also written Plinio

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Plinio, Плинио

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy

    Also written Plinio

15 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Plínio Barreto, b. 1882Plínio Salgado, b. 1895Plínio Doyle, b. 1906Plínio Barbosa Martins, b. 1926Plínio Cabral, b. 1926Plínio Bernhardt, b. 1927Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, b. 1930Plínio Marcos, b. 1935Plínio Marcos da Silva, b. 1984Sandro Cruz, b. 2001

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 Plínio mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Pliny Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Plínio a male or female name?
Plínio 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.
What are other forms of the name Plínio?
In the etymology graph, Pliny is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Plínio have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Plínio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled plinio.
How common is the name Plínio?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,744 people named Plínio in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Plínio compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Plínio is the 511th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.

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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pl%C3%ADnio

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, “Plínio” — the 511th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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