Variant of Eliseo, the Spanish form of Elisha, from Hebrew meaning God is my salvation.
Eliceo is a Spanish and occasionally Italian variant of Eliseo, the Romance-language rendering of the biblical Elisha — from the Hebrew "Elisha" (אֱלִישָׁע), meaning "my God is salvation" or "God is my salvation." Elisha was one of the most dramatically powerful prophets in the Hebrew Bible: successor to Elijah, he performed a remarkable number of miracles including multiplying oil for a widow, reviving a dead child, and purifying a poisoned pot of stew. His narrative in the Books of Kings is dense with wonder-working and political prophecy.
The name traveled from Hebrew through Greek (Elisaios) into Latin (Elisaeus) and then spread across the Mediterranean world in its various Romance forms. In the Spanish-speaking world, Eliseo is well attested across centuries, and Eliceo represents a softer phonetic variant that softens the medial consonant — a natural adaptation in regional dialects of Latin America and Spain. It carries the same biblical gravitas as Eliseo while feeling slightly more lyrical in spoken form.
Today Eliceo occupies a genuinely rare register: common enough to have deep historical legitimacy, uncommon enough that most bearers will be the only Eliceo in the room. For families with Spanish-language heritage who want a name rooted in biblical tradition but distinct from the ubiquitous José or Juan, Eliceo offers a path to both uniqueness and deep cultural authenticity.
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