Elio
Elio was given to 818 boys in 2025, #388 among boys’ names; 5,174 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,570 Americans named Elio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elio mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Elio is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, feminine equivalent Elia”
Derived from Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (Hḗlios).
/ˈɛ.ljo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elio?
#388 among boys’ names, 2025
Elio rose from #2,173 in 2015 to #388 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.48 per 1,000.
818 babies in 2025, the peak
Elio peaked in 2025, when 818 boys were given it, #388 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 601 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 818 | #388 | 0.48 |
| 2024 | 601 | #507 | 0.35 |
| 2023 | 426 | #645 | 0.25 |
| 2022 | 275 | #876 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 286 | #832 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,078 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 149 | #1,259 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,055 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,418 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,173 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,721 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,725 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,644 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,013 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,974 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,545 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,892 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,533 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,576 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,212 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,704 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,945 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,392 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,955 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,193 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,047 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,635 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,100 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,051 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,739 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,359 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 32 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,493 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,392 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,898 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,835 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,486 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,070 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,009 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,557 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,788 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,667 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,513 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,608 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,226 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,367 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,417 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,409 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,558 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,012 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,455 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,930 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elio, and how old are they?
4,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 5,174 Americans ever recorded as Elio. The median Elio alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 5,140 people named Elio (22 women and girls, 5,118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 258 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 614 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Elio born?
The states with the most babies named Elio are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 244 | #159 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 82 | #422 | 0.8× |
| New York | 45 | #389 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 39 | #469 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 38 | #210 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 37 | #294 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 29 | #227 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #248 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #465 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 22 | #347 | 0.7× |
Where Elio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elio is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 180,025 babies since 1880, Elio is the third most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 818 of their 4,519 babies (18%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elio
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elio and names like it
- Compare Elio and EliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElio peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elio since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Elio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Elio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.