MEANING & HISTORY
What does Eligio mean?
Eligio is a Spanish and Italian form of Latin Eligius. The Latin name is associated with eligere, to choose, and its chosen-related forms.
Saint Eligius is the principal Christian namesake. The personal-name route is specific and does not depend on the modern English word eligible, though that word shares Latin ancestry. Eloy is a related transmitted form.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
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SpanishEtymology & source
From Latin Eligius. Doublet of Eloy.
a male given name
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People with the name Eligio
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Eligio Lofranco
Filipino lawyer
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Eligio Lofranco
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Eligio in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Eligio
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Elidio·Name with documented Elydio and Helidio spelling variants
- Eladio·Of Greece; from Greek Helladios
- Eliseo♂My God is salvation
- Elpidio♂Hope, through Greek Elpidios
- Eulogio♂Good speech or blessing; from Eulogios
- Pelagio·Greek sea-name through Latin Pelagius
- Remigio♂Form of Remigius; oarsman
- Elcid♂Name from El Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s epithet
What rhymes with Eligio?
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Explore Eligio further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q19967861 — Eligio (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Eligio Lofranco (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q19967861 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Eligio (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Eligio (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: eligius (opens in a new tab)
Independently consulted exact source-name chain and qualifications.