Silvio
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/silviu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Silvio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 70th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 638(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 763
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 638 (inferred from the name graph)
119,498 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Silvius.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Silvio is read(measured from records)
Silvio is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese43%
a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Silvio in Spanish.
- English6.0%
A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Silvius.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silvio 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.
119,498 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Silvio is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, lat. Silvius, nome connesso a silva ‘selva’; forma popolare toscana Salvi.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Etimologia coine sopra. 21 agosto. Forma popolare toscana Salvi. Cogn. Salvi, -vini, -vioiii, -viucci, Salvotti. Iri Pie- monte Silvetti, Salvetti, Servetti, ed in Liguria Cer- vetto. Nella topononiastica, il superbo Cervino pro- bshilmente = dfo?ia: Si1oinu.s.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma ital. de Silvius
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Variante de Sylvain, du latin silva « forêt ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Pius IIb. 1405ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
- Silvio Pellicob. 1789ITItalian writer and poet
- Silvio Piolab. 1913ITItalian footballer and manager (1913-1996)
- Silvio Narizzanob. 1927CACanadian film and television director
- Silvio Berlusconib. 1936ITItalian media tycoon and politician (1936–2023)
- Silvio Marzolinib. 1940ARArgentine footballer (1940–2020)
- Silvio Rodríguezb. 1946CUCuban recording artist; musician, singer-songwriter
- Silvio Micalib. 1954USItalian-American computer scientist
- Silvio Orlandob. 1957ITItalian actor
- Pier Silvio Berlusconib. 1969ITItalian entrepreneur in the media business
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 86 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 141K | #346 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 119K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 119K | #273 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 443 | #273 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 359 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 47 | #288 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 14 | #1,835 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- Is Silvio a male or female name?
- Silvio 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.
- Where does the name Silvio come from?
- A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Silvius. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Silvio mean?
- In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Silvius
- What are other forms of the name Silvio?
- In the etymology graph, Silviu and Silvijo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Silvio?
- A machine transcription gives /silviu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Silvio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Silvio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silvio.
- How common is the name Silvio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 119,498 people named Silvio in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Silvio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Silvio is the 206th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silvioThe 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, “Silvio” — the 206th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.