Eligio
Eligio is an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Italian
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Eligio
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Eligio is an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
- Spanish
The Story of Eligio
Eligio first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1909, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1985: 30 births, good for #1,915 nationwide. Eligio last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 10 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Eligio
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Eligio. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Eligio
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About the name Eligio
Eligio is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1909 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Eligio's peak popularity came in 1985 when it ranked #1,915. Use the chart and map above to compare Eligio's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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