Given name · also Latin
Eliodoro
“gift of the sun”
Eliodoro is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eliodoro goes back to Ancient Greek Ηλιόδωρος, meaning “gift of the sun.”
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Where it comes from
Eliodoro comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Italian usage, Eliodoro developed from Ἡλιόδωρος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eliodoro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 243
- 243 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 12 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 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 677 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eliodoro’s family of names
In Italian usage, Eliodoro developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἡλιόδωρος. In Italian usage, Eliodoro has a conventional equivalent in the English form Heliodorus.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eliodoro
- Eliodoro VillazónPresident of Bolivia (1848-1939)
- Eliodoro CamachoBolivian politician (1831-1899)
- Eliodoro YáñezChilean journalist-lawyer-politician (1860-1932)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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