Given name & surname · also Greek, Late Latin
Elpidio
“a fearless man; having heart”
Elpidio is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “a fearless man; having heart.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “a fearless man; having heart.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Late Latin and Greek naming traditions.
How it developed
From Latin Elpidius, from Ancient Greek Ἐλπίδιος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
The name’s historical associations include various early saints, particularly a 4th-century hermit.
Elpidio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 783
- 783 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,576 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,576 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,546 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.
Elpidio’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Elpidio has a diminutive in Edyong. Elpidio has a related form in Elpideo. In Italian usage, Elpidio has a conventional equivalent in the French form Elpidios.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Elpidio
- Elpidio QuirinoPresident of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953 (1890–1956)
- Elpidius the CappadocianAbbot and saint
- Elpidio GonzálezArgentine politician1875–1951
- Elpidio CoppaItalian footballer (1914-1978)
- Elpidio VillaverdeArgentinian politician (1887–1962)
Characters named Elpidio: Elpidio Valdés (Cartoon character and comic).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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