Valerio or Valério is a male given name in several languages, derived from the Roman surname

Roman naming conventions

By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen...

 Valerius, which itself is derived from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 verb valere - "to be strong". Valerio also appears as a family name or surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

Dissemination

Valerio is a relatively common given name in Italy

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

, while its incidence is less common in the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Croatian

Croatian language

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 Sprachraum

Sprachraum

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. The Portuguese form of the name is Valério. The form of Valerio is Valeriu in the Romanian language.

Individuals carrying the name

With the given name Valerio:

• Valerio Evangelisti
  Valerio Evangelisti
  Valerio Evangelisti is one of the most popular Italian writers of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquistor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamus trilogy, all bestsellers translated into many languages...
  
  

With the surname Valerio:

• Alberto Valerio
  Alberto Valerio
  -Formula Three:Valerio drove in the Formula Three Sudamericana championship from 2003 to 2005, winning the title in his final year of the category. For 2006 he moved to the British championship, finishing 11th in the championship...
  
  
• Alessandro Valerio
  Alessandro Valerio
  Alessandro Valerio was an Italian horse rider. He competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and, with his horse Cento, won the silver medal in the individual jumping event.- External links :*...
  
  
• Edvaldo Valério
  Edvaldo Valério
  Edvaldo Valério Silva Filho is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil. He competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...
  
  
• Gabriel Valerio
  Gabriel Valerio
  Gabriel Valerio is the drummer of the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires. He also performs backing vocals with Zimon Lijoi and Fabian Varesi...
  
  
• Joaquín Enrique Valerio
  Joaquín Enrique Valerio
  Joaquín Enrique Valerio Olivera is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.-Football career:...
  
  
• Luca Valerio
  Luca Valerio
  Luca Valerio was an Italian mathematician. He developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies using the methods of Archimedes. He corresponded with Galileo Galilei and was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.-Biography:...
  
   (1552–1618), Italian mathematician
• Marcos Valério
  Marcos Valério
  Marcos Valério Fernandes de Souza is a Brazilian businessman in the field of public relations and a key figure in the mensalão scandal. He is the owner of two communications firms, DNA and SMP&B.- Early life :...
  
  
• Melanie Valerio
  Melanie Valerio
  Melanie Valerio, born May 7, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is a United States swimmer, who graduated from Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio and the University of Virginia....