Highest ever

Elio

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#388
818 boys
2015
#2,173
rank
1950
#3,836
rank

Elio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 818 in 2025. Its best rank was #388 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Elio in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#388 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
818
Since 1880
5,174
Years on record
109

Babies named Elio, every year since 1880

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Boys

Elio: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 818 boys in 2025. Peak: #388 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 818 (2025).

About the name Elio

In 2025, 818 US boys were named Elio, making it the 388th most common boys’ name of the year, up 119 places from #507 in 2024. That is 217 more than the 601 boys named Elio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #388, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 818. For comparison, it was #2,173 in 2015 and #3,836 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Elio in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 5,174 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,591 babies named Elio.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,990 US boys were named Elio; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 818. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,088 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Elio ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #150 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Eli (154,512 babies since 1880), Eliot (8,465 babies since 1880), Ellie (106,857 babies since 1880) and Elia (10,159 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Helio are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Helio (343).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Elio in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Elio by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Alaska6#150—
California244#159#1,133
District of Columbia5#179—
Washington38#210—
Nevada14#219—
Colorado29#227—
Massachusetts24#248—
Illinois37#294—
New Mexico6#329—
Arizona22#347—
New York45#389—
Connecticut7#403—
Texas82#422#2,206
Oklahoma10#435—
Nebraska5#457—
Virginia17#459—
Pennsylvania22#465—
Florida39#469#1,761
Oregon7#489—
Georgia21#503—
Michigan15#550—
Missouri10#570—
Maryland8#593—
Iowa5#604—
New Jersey11#614—
Kansas5#620—
Wisconsin7#641—
Tennessee11#650—
Minnesota7#667—
Indiana9#684—
Ohio13#685—
Utah5#729—
North Carolina6#1,186—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——818#388
2024——601#507
2023——426#645
2022——275#876
2021——286#832
2020——185#1,078
2019——149#1,259
2018——129#1,368
2017——68#2,055
2016——53#2,418
2015——63#2,173
2014——44#2,723
2013——43#2,727
2012——46#2,645
2011——38#3,014
2010——39#2,975
2009——48#2,595
2008——51#2,482
2007——49#2,545
2006——39#2,893
2005——44#2,537
2004——42#2,580
2003——49#2,216
2002——35#2,708
2001——31#2,950
2000——40#2,396
1999——28#2,959
1998——22#3,421
1997——23#3,198
1996——24#3,052
1995——28#2,640
1994——23#3,051
1993——38#2,105
1992——37#2,102
1991——33#2,201
1990——36#2,056
1989——25#2,564
1988——24#2,462
1987——24#2,354
1986——22#2,451
1985——35#1,740
1984——25#2,115
1983——26#2,036
1982——21#2,360
1981——32#1,780
1980——33#1,740
1979——19#2,494
1978——25#1,984
1977——19#2,392
1976——25#1,951
1975——16#2,564
1974——16#2,492
1973——12#2,900
1972——24#1,835
1971——13#2,722
1970——14#2,543
1969——18#2,006
1968——12#2,487
1967——13#2,274
1966——15#2,071
1965——16#2,010
1964——14#2,241
1963——15#2,139
1962——26#1,558
1961——21#1,789
1960——9#2,933
1959——8#3,103
1958——13#2,294
1957——6#3,684
1956——7#3,294
1955——5#4,018
1954——9#2,800
1953——9#2,772
1952——9#2,732
1951——6#3,459
1950——5#3,836
1949——8#2,856
1947——8#2,941
1946——5#3,668
1944——9#2,514
1943——9#2,609
1941——5#3,655
1940——6#3,226
1939——7#2,917
1937——5#3,685
1936——5#3,700
1935——6#3,367
1934——7#3,067
1933——23#1,417
1932——10#2,509
1931——17#1,794
1930——23#1,544
1929——21#1,627
1928——16#1,986
1927——25#1,528
1926——28#1,386
1925——26#1,468
1924——28#1,427
1923——25#1,517
1922——28#1,409
1921——24#1,558
1920——14#2,252
1919——19#1,766
1918——17#1,929
1917——15#2,013
1916——17#1,790
1915——23#1,427
1914——18#1,455
1912——8#1,931

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).