Elio
Elio is a boy name of Italian origin, meaning The sun.
What Elio means
The sun.
Elio is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Elio comes from
Italian names preserve Latin forms more directly than most European languages, often keeping the original vowel endings that other languages dropped.
Elio is recorded as Italian in origin. Browse other Italian names.
How popular is Elio?
Elio is not in the current top 100 boy names we track. In practice that means a child called Elio is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Elio
Two ideas meet in Elio: light and brightness and Sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Elio
These share Elio's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Helios — The sun.
- Icarus — Follower; one who flew to the sun.
- Phoebus — Radiant and shining.
- Sorin — Sun.
- Dawn — First light of day.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Soleil — The sun.
- Alberto — Noble and bright.