Given name & surname · also Latin
Eleuterio
“liberator”
Eleuterio is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Spanish and Italian.
Original LatinEleutherius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eleuterio goes back to Ancient Greek Ἐλευθέριος, meaning “liberator.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Eleuterio comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Eleuterio developed from ELEUTHERIUS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eleuterio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 756
- 756 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 18 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,536 as a first name in 2020; 147 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.
Eleuterio’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Eleuterio has a diminutive in TERYO. In Spanish usage, Eleuterio developed from the Latin form ELEUTHERIUS. In Italian usage, Eleuterio has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Eleuteriusz.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eleuterio has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Eleuterio comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eleuterio
- Eleuterio SánchezSpanish writerborn 1942
- Eleuterio Fernández HuidobroUruguayan politician (1942-2016)
- Eleuterio RodolfiItalian actor and film director1876–1933
- Eleuterio SantosSpanish footballer (1940-2008)
- Eleuterio PaglianoItalian painter (1826-1903)
- Eleuterio AnguitaSpanish bicycle racerborn 1969
- Eleuterio Maisonnave y CutayarSpanish politician (1840-1890)
- Eleuterio RamírezChilean Army officer (1836–1879)
- Eleuterio Francesco FortinoItalian priest (1938–2010)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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