Eleuterio
Masculine · “free”
Eleuterio is the Spanish and Italian form of a Greek name that means free. The word itself was political long before it was a name: a Greek city founded a festival on it after the battle that ended the Persian invasion.
How old is the name Eleuterio?
Eleuterio first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Eleuterio alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 500 people named Eleuterio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eleuterio most popular?
Eleuterio peaked in 1926, reaching #1846 nationally. See the whole 1926 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Eleutherios to Eleuterio
The story of Eleuterio
After the Persians were defeated at Plataea, the Greek allies established a festival there called the Eleutheria, the freedom games, held at intervals in honor of Zeus the Liberator, with an altar and a sacrifice paid for by the city on whose ground the battle had been fought. It went on for centuries. The word did serious work in Greek political vocabulary, where freedom meant specifically not being a slave and not being ruled by a foreign power, and where both halves of that were understood to be arguable. Several popes and saints later carried the name in its Latin form, which is how it reached Spanish and Italian.
Meaning
free
The Greek eleutheros means free, as opposed to enslaved, and the reading is settled. It is the same root as the Eleutheria, the freedom festival, and it was used as an epithet of Zeus.
How the name formed
- Eleutherios
- Eleutherius
- Eleuterio
Related forms: Eleuterio · Eleuterio · Eleftherios
Pronouncing Eleuterio
eh-loo-TEH-ree-oh
Five syllables with the weight on the third. English speakers regularly stop after three.
Nicknames for Eleuterio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1917
- Most boys named
- 192618 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1846reached in 1926
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eleuterio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eleuterio in Spanish — same name
- Eleuterio in Italian — same name
- Eleftherios in Greek — same name
Eleuterios among us
people named Eleuterio are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Eleuterio sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and can be given in one word.
- It is entirely ordinary in Spanish-speaking countries and genuinely rare in the United States.
- Five open syllables make it unmistakable when spoken.
- Five syllables is a great deal for an American form and it will be shortened by other people first.
- English readers will put the stress in the wrong place on first sight.
- Outside Spanish-speaking communities it will be spelled aloud constantly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eleuterios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Eleuterio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eleuterio in 2025?
- Eleuterio is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Eleuterio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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