Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Acacius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 34 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 28
- #3,849 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 28 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,849 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5).
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Acacius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Acacius has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Ακάκιος. In English usage, Acacius has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Ака́кий. In Latin usage, Acacius has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Акакий.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Acacius has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Acacius comes from · 1 name
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Akakiequivalent
- Akakiosequivalent
- Acacioequivalent
- Ákosequivalent
- Acácioequivalent
- АкакийRussian
- ΑκάκιοςGreek
- Ἀκάκιοςsource · Ancient Greek
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People named Acacius
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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