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
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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.