Elio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning “Sun.” In 2024 it was given to 599 boys in the United States.
Elio at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Italian
Meaning
“Sun”
About the name Elio
Elio belongs to the Italian tradition. Its meaning — “Sun” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Elio first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #507 in 2024, and in 2024 599 babies received the name — 4,349 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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