Zilio

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname from Venetan

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

Zilio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 239K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 29K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 215K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,200 people, est.

Sources
91 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname from Venetan

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zilio 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 Zilio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈2,200 est.≈1 in 29KlistedZilio35
BR Brazil≈890 est.≈1 in 239K100Zilio91
FR France≈210 est.≈1 in 328K28—1
AR Argentina901 in 505K90Zilio27
US United States≈60 est.≈1 in 5.5MlistedZilio67
CH Switzerland391 in 215K39Zilio7
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 234Klisted——

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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Zilio is also recorded as 2 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 Zílio

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Zílio

35 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)

Zilio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, variante regional setentrional de Gilio

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Gilli

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

19201940196019802000Giovanni Meo Zilio, b. 1923Francesca Zilio, b. 1982Anthony Zilio, b. 1985

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 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Zilio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.8K#3,600
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—90—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202439#22,536
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19111—

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Zilio mean, and where does it come from?
a surname from Venetan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Zilio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Zilio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zilio.
How common is the name Zilio?
In Argentina, the national register counted 90 people named Zilio, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.

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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, “Zilio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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