Meaning & origin
What it means
Aelius possibly goes back to Ancient Greek ἥλιος, meaning “sun.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aelius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,816 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,816 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aelius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Aelius has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Élio.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aelius
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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