Lucio
Just 51 men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. Latin at root, from a word for "light", and it still sounds Italian or Spanish.
Lucio Pronunciation
Lucio is pronounced LOO-cho (/ˈlut͡ɕɔ/).
What Lucio means
Where Lucio comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lucio comes from the Latin lux, meaning light. Behind it stands the old Roman praenomen Lucius, which ancient writers tied to children born at daybreak. The scholar Varro recorded that link. In Italian and Spanish the name settled into its short form. Lucio.
Italy gave the name to Lucio Battisti, whose records reshaped Italian pop in the 1970s. Lucio Fontana, the Italian-Argentine artist, carried it too. Spain uses the same spelling. Across both languages the meaning holds steady.
On a Polish class register Lucio would stand apart from the Marcins and Kacpers. It reads as foreign and clear at once. The sense of it never strays far from lux, the Latin word for light.
How many people are named Lucio
1 in 418553 men in Poland is named Lucio. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5284 among male names.
Lucio's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Lucio as a middle name
Lucio is a first name for 51 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2530th, between Lubosław (14) and Ludvig (14).
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#2528 Leone14
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#2529 Lubosław14
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#2530 Lucio14
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#2531 Ludvig14
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#2532 Maksimilian14