Eliseo
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Meaning
“Spanish/Italian form of Elisha, 'God is salvation'”
The story
Eliseo is the Spanish and Italian form of Elisha, the biblical name traditionally understood as God is salvation. Its best story begins when Naaman, a powerful commander with a skin disease, arrives expecting a grand cure. Elisha does not even come out to perform one. A messenger tells Naaman to wash seven times in the Jordan. Insulted by the simplicity of it, Naaman turns away until his servants persuade him to try. He returns healed. The episode is scripture, not medical advice or ordinary biography, and its force lies in the reversal: rank, gifts, and spectacle accomplish nothing, while a plain instruction that wounds the commander's pride becomes the turning point. Eliseo carries that old name into Spanish and Italian without requiring a family to share the story's faith. The association remains vivid because the miracle is staged less as magic than as a contest between expectation and humility.
How popular is Eliseo around the world?
In the United States, 2,350 babies were named Eliseo between 2020 and 2025. In Argentina, 804 newborns were given the name Eliseo in 2024.
Eliseo is on the official records of the United States, Argentina, Mexico City, Montevideo, Spain, Chile, Canada, England and Wales and Brazil.
United States
1 in 9,300
In the United States, 2,350 babies were named Eliseo between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Eliseo peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure. In US birth records Eliseo has stayed between 510 and 2,350 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Argentina
1 in 820
In Argentina, 804 newborns were given the name Eliseo in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Mexico City City
1 in 3,500
In Mexico City, there were 34 registrations of Eliseo in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Montevideo City
1 in 8,2002011
In Montevideo, 3 boys named Eliseo were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Spain
1 in 9,300
In Spain, 4,806 residents are named Eliseo, the 428th most common name among men, with a mean age of 62 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Chile
1 in 13,000
In Chile, 14 boys were registered as Eliseo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Canada
1 in 52,000
In Canada, 7 boys named Eliseo were born in 2024, ranked 2,550th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 120,000
In England and Wales, 5 boys named Eliseo were born in 2025, ranked 3,684th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Brazil
1 in 330,000
At the 2022 census, 602 people in Brazil were named Eliseo, ranked 11,765th, with a median age of 51.
Among people named Eliseo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Austria
last on record 2024
Eliseo is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Puerto Rico
last on record 2004
Eliseo is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 13 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
South Australia
last on record 2016
Eliseo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Eliseo
Most people given the name Eliseo in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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