Egidio

• Portuguese:/iʒiðju/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Spanish:/eˈxi.ð̞jo/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Italian:/eˈd͡ʒi.djo/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Egidio is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Portuguese39%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Egidio in Portuguese.

• Spanish38%

  a male given name, equivalent to English Aegidius or Giles

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Del latín Aegidius; por etimología popular, "el protegido", de aegis, "égida; escudo".

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Italian9.5%

  Probabile patronimico dal nome greco Egeo; nome diffuso in Italia per il culto di sant'Egidio.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  forma italiana de Aegidius; v. Egidi

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Aegidius or Giles

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English6.8%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Egidio in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Egidio is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Germany, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Egídio

• Italian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Philippines

  Also written Egídio, Ègidiò

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Égidio, Egídio

• Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Egídio

55 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.

Egidio is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Scudo di Zeus

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

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.

• Gilesb. 640GRnot in their usual nameChristian hermit
• Giles of Romeb. 1243FRnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic archbishop
• Egidio Arévalo Riosb. 1982UYUruguayan footballer

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).

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.

58 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.

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

What does the name Egidio mean, and where does it come from?

a male given name, equivalent to English Aegidius or Giles Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Egidio?

In the etymology graph, Gilles, Egidijus and Tilen are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Egidio?

It depends on the language: in Portuguese /iʒiðju/; in Spanish /eˈxi.ð̞jo/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /eˈd͡ʒi.djo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Egidio a male or female name?

Egidio is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.

Which countries have the most people named Egidio?

Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Egidio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egidio. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Angola and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Egidio?

In Brazil, the national register counted 5,581 people named Egidio in 2022, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

How common is Egidio compared with other names?

In Paraguay, Egidio is the 695th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.