Lio Family History
- Lio Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: most likely a variant of Leo, from a local form (compare De Leo), but possibly also from a reduced form of a name such as Leonardo, Leopardo, or from Greek leios ‘smooth’, ‘glossy’, presumably applied as a nickname. Catalan (Lió): habitational name from Lió in Girona province of Lyon in France (see Lyon).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 29,025 Historical Documents with Lio on Ancestry
- 18,008 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,816 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,222 Military Records
- 2,183 Immigration Records
- 1,796 Member Trees
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Number of Lio families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lio census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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