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Elio

#388 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Aelius

Elio has been given to 5,174 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #388 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 818 recorded.

Babies named Elio, 2025

1 in 4,050

Elio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Aelius

Ancient Greek

What Elio means

Elio is a form of Aelius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elio → Aelius. The family’s proposed meaning is “sun”, recorded in the naming reference for Aelius.

Origin, language, and formation

Elio is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Elio comes through Ancient Greek Ἥλιος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aelius and Elia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Elio is pronounced /ˈɛ.ljo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,174 boys were recorded with the name Elio between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 818 in 2025; its best national rank was #388 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,078 in 2020 to #388 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,173 in 2015 to #388 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,050
818 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,090
0.05% of boys
Rank, 2025
#388
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elio 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 1002%
School of 50012%

Put another way: gather 2,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elio was born before 2020 — so the typical Elio is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,669
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (2,591).

Is Elio 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
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+690
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,785
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
12.98×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (818)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#388
2025

Spellings of Elio

Elio is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 38.4% against Elio's 0.22%.

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 Elio is used

Across 2016–2025, Elio was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 5,349 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in 25,000).

439 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 2,564
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 2,857
  3. 3Washington1 in 3,125
  4. 4Colorado1 in 3,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 3,448
  6. 6Nevada1 in 4,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 4,167
  8. 8New York1 in 4,167

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.

Geographically, Elio is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 61% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Elio around the world

Where Elio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #308
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2024–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • France
    1903–2025
    #17
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #202
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Elio

People whose public names include Elio, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elio in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Elio. Linked forms have their own page here.

EliEloAelius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Elio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#388
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 690
Best rank ever
#388
2025
Peak year
2025
818 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,174
Count in 2025
818

Names similar to Elio

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

ElieElielEliamEliotEliaElianEliudElihuElijaEliahEliuEliseoElighEliottEliabEliyahuElishaEliezerEligioElimElisElierEliazEliazar

Names with a curve like Elio

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elio, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Elio

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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