Aloysius

Where Aloysius comes from

Latinization of Occitan Aloys, an Occitan form of Louis. Doublet of Louis.
— Wiktionary's entry for Aloysius
  • Germanic
  • 4 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1807
    Aloysius Bertrand born
    French poet
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1893
    Peak, #312
    31 babies named Aloysius — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #559.
  5. 1930
    Aloysius Ambrozic born
    Canadian Roman-Catholic priest cardinal
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, notably of a 16th-century Italian saint.
Namesakes
  • Aloysius Bertrand · French poet, 1807–1841
  • Aloysius Ambrozic · Canadian Roman-Catholic priest cardinal, 1930–2011
  • Aloysius Jin Luxian · Chinese bishop, 1916–2013
  • Aloysius Maryadi Sutrisnaatmaka · 21st-century Indonesian Catholic bishop, born 1953
  • Aloysius Pang · Singaporean actor, 1990–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.