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Elmo

Elmo means "Italian, short for Erasmus" and comes from Italian, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is a name that stands out a little. 1920 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

ItalianItalian, short for Erasmus
GreekGreek "erao" – "beloved"
Births by decade
1900s
429
1910s
2,598
1920s
2,987
1930s
1,452
1940s
1,022
1950s
691
1960s
376
1970s
202
1980s
131
1990s
85
2000s
23
2010s
5
Peaked in the 1920s · 10,001 total U.S. births since 1900