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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : from a southern variant of the personal name Eligio, Italian form of Latin Eligius ‘chosen’ (see 2).
  • Americanized form of a French name, probably Éloi, which is from a personal name (Latin Eligius ‘chosen’), borne by a 7th-century saint, bishop of Noyon.

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