Given name & surname
Egidio
“resembling a young goat”
Egidio is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “resembling a young goat.”
Original ItalianZilio
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “resembling a young goat.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
How it developed
In Italian use, Egidio is used as a form of GILEs.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Egidio is a form of Giles. The history of Giles gives this family its wider story. Giles was in use during the Middle Ages.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Egidio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 164
- 164 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 369 as a first name in 2020; 186 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Egidio’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Egidio has a later derivative in Gil. In Italian usage, Egidio has a conventional equivalent in the French form Gilles. In Italian usage, Egidio has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Gil.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Egidio has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Ziliovariant · Italian
- Egiliovariant · Italian
- Giliovariant · Italian
- Egydiosvariant
- Egidiosvariant
- Egydiusvariant
- Egidiusvariant
- Egydiyovariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Gilderivative · Spanish, Portuguese
- Gilescognate · English
- GillesFrench
- IdziPolish
- AegidiusEnglish, Dutch
- JiljíCzech
- EgyedHungarian
- ÄgidiusGerman
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People named Egidio
- Egidio MiragoliItalian Roman Catholic bishopborn 1955
- Egidio ArévaloUruguayan footballerborn 1982
- Egidio DuniItalian composer1708–1775
- Giles of ViterboItalian Augustinian friar, bishop and cardinal (1469-1532)
- Egidio VagnozziCatholic cardinal (1906-1980)
- Egidio ForcelliniItalian philologist (1688-1768)
- Egidio NkaijanabwoUgandan priest who served as bishopborn 1935
- Egidio Maria of Saint JosephRoman Catholic saint1729–1812
- Egidio MauriRoman Catholic cardinal (1828–1896)
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