Given name & surname
Onofrio
“a defender of peace”
Onofrio is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “a defender of peace.”
Original ItalianNoferi
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “a defender of peace.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Onofrio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 269
- 269 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 300 as a first name in 2020; 781 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Onofrio’s family of names
In Italian usage, Onofrio has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Onofre. Onofrio has a related form in Onofre. In Italian usage, Onofrio has a related form in Noferi.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Onofrio has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Onofrio comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Onofrio
- OnuphriusDesert father320–400
- Onofrio PanvinioItalian historian and antiquary (1529-1568)1530–1568
- Onofrio PuglisiItalian mathematician (-1679)1650–1679
- Onofrio AbbateItalian physician, naturalist and writer (1824-1915)
- Onofrio PalumboItalian painter of the Baroque period (1606-1656)
- Onofrio GabrielliItalian painter (1619-1706)
- Onofrio BaroneItalian footballer (1964-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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