Mio

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Fantasy name invented by Astrid Lindgren for her book Mio, min Mio (1954); no meaning is given in the book

Nevertheless, a popular but very implausibel guess for its origin an meaning is a relation to the Italian word mio = 'my, mine', but in this case the book's title would not make sense('mine, my mine') ^[1]

These two other derivation theories are unrelated to the Nordic fantasy name as well:

2) Croatian pet name, short form of names beginning with Mio-, a Croatian form of the name element MIL ^[2]

3) Male form of Mia ^[1]

Related Names

Mio	♂

Further Information

The name of the book character Mio in the real world is Bo Vilhelm Olsson (Bosse)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		84	127	803	1118
Norway[4]		0	6	35	70
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	20	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	13	n.a	329
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][5][4][6]:

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi