Eligio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latín Eligius; quizá de eligere, 'elegir', 'el elegido'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛlixio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eligio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 4.3K
- VEVenezuela1 in 7.3K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latín Eligius; quizá de eligere, 'elegir', 'el elegido'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eligio 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Eligio | 34 |
| VE Venezuela | #695 | 3,930 | 1 in 7.3K | 3.9K | Eligio | 25 |
| PY Paraguay | #315 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Eligio | 17 |
| US United States | — | 2,777 | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Eligio | 182 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #189 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Eligio | 23 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 3 | — | 18 |
| NI Nicaragua | #374 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Eligio | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Eligio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Probabile variante di Luigi, di origine germanica.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma italiana de Eligius; v. Eligi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
From Latin Eligius ‘chosen’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
El elegido
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Scelto
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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)
- Eligio Celestinob. 1739ITItalian violinist, kapellmeister and composer (1739-1812)
- Eligio Ancona del Castillob. 1835MXMexican politician
- Eligio Ayalab. 1879PYPresident of Paraguay (1879–1930)
- Eligio Vecchib. 1910ITItalian footballer (1910-1968)
- Eligio Pichardob. 1929USDominican and American painter (1929–1984)
- Eligio Insfránb. 1935PYParaguayan footballer
- Eligio Echagüeb. 1938PYParaguayan footballer (1938-2009)
- Eligio Meléndezb. 1950MXMexican actor
- Eligio Martínezb. 1955PYParaguayan association football player (1955–2024)
- Eligio R. Monterob. 1970ESSpanish screenwriter
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)
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 46 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 3.9K | #325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #5,936 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 3 | #820 |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Eligio a male or female name?
- Eligio 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.
- How do you pronounce Eligio?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛlixio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Eligio mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latín Eligius; quizá de eligere, 'elegir', 'el elegido'.
- What are other forms of the name Eligio?
- In the etymology graph, Eloy, Eloi and Eligiusz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Eligio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Eligio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eligio.
- How common is the name Eligio?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 3,930 people named Eligio, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Eligio compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Eligio is the 189th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eligioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Eligio” — the 189th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.