Given name
Lúcio
“light”
Lúcio is a given name from Latin, meaning “light.” It is used in Portuguese.
Original LatinLucius
Meaning & origin
Lúcio’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Lúcio has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Lucio. In Portuguese usage, Lúcio has a conventional equivalent in the English form Lucius. In Portuguese usage, Lúcio has a conventional equivalent in the Occitan form Luci.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Lúcio has relatives in 21 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Lúcio comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- LuciusLatin, Swedish
- LucioItalian, Galician
- LuciOccitan, Catalan
- Lúciahas masculine form
- LuciuSicilian
- ЛуцийRussian
- ŁucjuszPolish
- LucjuszPolish
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People named Lúcio
- Lúcio LaraAngolan politician (1929-2016)
- LúcioBrazilian footballerborn 1979
- Lúcio CardosoBrazilian novelist, playwright, and poet (1913–1968)1912–1968
- Lúcio FlávioBrazilian footballer and managerborn 1979
- Lúcio AntunesCape Verdean association football managerborn 1966
- Lúcio MaranhãoBrazilian footballerborn 1988
- Lúcio Ignácio BaumgaertnerBrazilian archbishop (1931–2023)
- Lúcio de CastroBrazilian pole vaulter and javelin thrower1910–2004
- Lúcio BalaBrazilian footballerborn 1975
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