Elio

given name · Latin script

Meaning: do nome gr. Hélios, o deus do sol e o próprio sol

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɛlio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Elio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 3.3K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 3.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

29,318 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
223 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ElioLatin(measured from records)
ΕλιοGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

do nome gr. Hélios, o deus do sol e o próprio sol

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Elio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Elio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#88729,3181 in 7.2K38KElio131
VE Venezuela#279≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Elio65
IT Italy#509≈18,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K169Elio155
AR Argentina#491≈14,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K28Elio77
PE Peru#772≈7,100 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Elio64
BO Bolivia#754≈4,300 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Elio31
AL Albania—1,0851 in 2.8K1.1K——

29,318 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Elio is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Élio, Elío, Elïo, Ëlio

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Italy, United States

    Also written Élio, Èlio, Elío, Eliö, ́elio

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Élio, Elío

  • Albanian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, France

    Also written Elío, Élíõ

  • Croatian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Italy, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Élio

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ëlîõ, Élio

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Elio is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom., itaHenische oder spanische

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • El que ama el Sol

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Sole

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Italian, helium

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Elio Vittorini, b. 1908Elio Bartolini, b. 1922Elio Sgreccia, b. 1928Elio Petri, b. 1929Tony Renis, b. 1938Elio Di Rupo, b. 1951Elio De Capitani, b. 1953Elio de Angelis, b. 1958Elio Germano, b. 1980Elio Verde, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Elio,Hi Elio, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 91 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Elio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—38K#937
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202229K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29K#838
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.1K#439
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024169#124
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020159—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—95#838
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202428#1,363

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Elio?
A machine transcription gives /ɛlio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Elio mean?
Recorded meaning: do nome gr. Hélios, o deus do sol e o próprio sol
Is Elio a male or female name?
Elio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Elio?
In the etymology graph, Helios and Aelius are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Elio?
In Brazil, the national register counted 29,318 people named Elio in 2022, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
How common is Elio compared with other names?
In Brazil, Elio is the 887th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
In which country does Elio have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Elio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elio.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elio” — the 887th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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