Flavio
From Latin, meaning "golden" or "blond". Fewer than 150 Polish men carry it, so most people here will never meet one, and newborns have all but stopped.
Flavio Pronunciation
What Flavio means
Where Flavio comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Flavio grows from Latin. Its root is flavus, a word Romans used for golden-yellow, for the blond of ripe wheat and fair hair. From flavus came Flavius, the name of a Roman clan, the gens Flavia. One bearer was the emperor Vespasian, born Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who founded the Flavian dynasty in the year 69. A plain word for a hair color climbed all the way to an imperial title.
In Italy and Spain the name never fell out of use. There Flavio is warm and familiar, a name you meet in classrooms and on football pitches. The old sense of golden and blond sits under it, even when the child it names has dark hair.
In a Polish class register, Flavio stands apart from the Kacpers and Szymons. It reads as a borrowed name, a thread back to Italy or Spain. The meaning stays fixed. Golden, blond, the color of flavus.
How many people are named Flavio
1 in 155812 men in Poland is named Flavio. 137 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2816 among male names.
Flavio's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Flavio as a middle name
Flavio is a first name for 137 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2312th, between Fathy (16) and Giuliano (16).
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#2310 Farouk16
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#2311 Fathy16
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#2312 Flavio16
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#2313 Giuliano16
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#2314 György16