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The rio Surname

rio Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Río), Portuguese, and Italian: from río ‘river’, ‘brook’ (from Latin rivus), applied either as a topographic name or as a habitational name from a place named with this word.
  2. Southern French (Occitan): variant of Rioux.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The rio name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the rio family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of rio Families in the US in 1920
Number of rio families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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