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Eligio

#6,558 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eligius

Eligio has been given to 1,548 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #6,558 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Eligio, 2025

1 in 255,000

Eligio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eligio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eligius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eligio means

Eligio is a form of Eligius.

Origin, language, and formation

Eligio is used in Italian and Spanish.

Eligio comes through Latin Eligius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eligius, Eligia and Eloy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Eligio is pronounced /eˈlixjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,548 boys were recorded with the name Eligio between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,322 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,152 in 2020 to #6,558 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,977 in 2015 to #6,558 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Eligio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,558
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eligio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eligio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eligios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eligio was born before 1976 — so the typical Eligio is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
12.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,155
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Choose a decade

1990s — 12.8% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Eligio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,363
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+594
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,419
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.3%
Peak was 1985 (30)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,322
1909

Spellings of Eligio

Eligio is not the most common spelling — Emilio is, with 63.2% against Eligio's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eligio is used

Across 1910–2025, Eligio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 95,068 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eligio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eligio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,558
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 594
Best rank ever
#1,322
1909
Peak year
1985
30 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,548
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Eligio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eligio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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