Given name & surname
Plinio
Plinio is a masculine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Plinio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 5 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 5 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 476 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Plinio’s family of names
In Italian usage, Plinio has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Pliniusz. In Italian usage, Plinio as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form PLINE.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Plinio
- Anselme BrusaFrench rower (1899-1969)
- Plinio Corrêa de OliveiraAcademic, Politician, Author, Lawyer (1908-1995)
- Plinio NomelliniItalian painter (1866-1943)
- Plinio Apuleyo MendozaColombian writer and diplomat1931–2026
- Plinio AntoliniItalian pharmacist and astronomer (1920-2012)
- Plinio ClabassiItalian opera singer, bass (1919–1984)
- Plinio MartiniSwiss writer (1923-1979)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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