Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Heliodoro isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Heliodoro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 163
- 163 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 8 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 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,068 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.
Heliodoro’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Heliodoro 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 Heliodoro
- Heliodoro GallegoSpanish politicianborn 1949
- CastañoSpanish association football player (1933-2019)
- Heliodoro de PaivaPortuguese philosopher and composer1502–1552
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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