Helio
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Helio is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A heliotrope (surveying instrument).
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8K◐
- PTPortugal1 in 2.8K
- ESSpain1 in 38K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈143K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 186 ●
- 1 in 1.8K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
159K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hélio in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A heliotrope (surveying instrument).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #194 | 116,954 | 134K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 138K | Helio | 186 |
| FR France | — | 13,905△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 4.9K | 14K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 5,118 | 10K rec. | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Helio | 168 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,648 | 3K rec. | — | 28 | Helio | 38 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,274△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 3.3K | — | 12 |
| PT Portugal | #251 | 3,012 | 915 rec. | — | listed | Helio | 82 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,702 | 1.1K rec. | — | 527 | Helio | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | 2,660 | 2.2K rec. | — | 27 | Helio | 77 |
| PE Peru | — | 2,288 | 2K rec. | — | — | Helio | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,301△ | 467 rec. | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Helio | 51 |
| CO Colombia | — | 1,100 | 561 rec. | — | — | Helio | 45 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,085 | — | 1 in 2.8K | 1.1K | — | — |
Roughly 117K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese2.3M94%
- English123K5%
- Spanish16K1%
- French4.7K1%
- ptbr2.4K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 2,259,134 | 94% |
| English | 123,300 | 5% |
| Spanish | 16,138 | 1% |
| French | 4,667 | 1% |
| ptbr | 2,440 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Helio is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of hēlium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, alternative form of heliumo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, helium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, HELIO- Element de compunere care înseamnă „privitor la soare, la lumina soarelui”, „care aparține soarelui” și care servește la formarea unor substantive și adjective.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 26 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 17 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Helio Vieirab. 1916BRBrazilian fencer
- Helio Matheusb. 1940BRBrazilian composer
- Helio Piñónb. 1942ESSpanish architect (born 1942)
- Helio Verab. 1946PYParaguayan writer
- Helio Fallasb. 1947CRCosta Rican politician
- Helio Pedregalb. 1949ESSpanish actor
- Helio Begliominib. 1955BRBrazilian writer, historian and physician
- Helio Alvesb. 1966BRJazz pianist
- Helio Batistab. 1973BRBrazilian association football player
- Helio Pereirab. 1980BRBrazilian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 138K | #351 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 137K | #103 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 117K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 117K | #279 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 116K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 114K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 110K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 103K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 86K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 62K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 34K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 28K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 362 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Helio?
- We estimate roughly 143 thousand people bear Helio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Helio have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 117 thousand people bear Helio in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled helio.
- How common is Helio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Helio is the 194th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Helio a male or female name?
- Helio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Helio mean?
- Recorded meaning: A heliotrope (surveying instrument).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Helio” — the 194th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.