Latin Boy Names

Latin name forms range from names used in antiquity to later Latin forms of Christian and European names. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

578#520
Up 43 rank positions in five years
1952

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,341#258
Down 32 rank positions in five years
1984

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

119#1,486
Up 161 rank positions in five years
1920

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

759#424
Down 89 rank positions in five years
1918

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

6,268#40
Up 61 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1881.

448#622
Down 176 rank positions in five years
2003

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

14#6,241
Down 1,134 rank positions in five years
1921

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1953.

118#1,496
Down 399 rank positions in five years
1973

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

82#1,908
Down 395 rank positions in five years
1974

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

27#4,018
Down 16 rank positions in five years
1922

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1903.

235#976
Down 292 rank positions in five years
1996

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

910#358
Down 18 rank positions in five years
2015

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

783#407
Up 92 rank positions in five years
2024

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1881.

1,208#281
Up 18 rank positions in five years
2021

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

—Unranked
—
1919

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

189#1,129
Up 95 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

504#583
Down 95 rank positions in five years
2021

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

208#1,054
Down 313 rank positions in five years
2021

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

79#1,952
Down 798 rank positions in five years
2007

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1921.

326#781
Up 61 rank positions in five years
2015

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

—Unranked
—
1922

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1885.

108#1,573
Up 186 rank positions in five years
2014

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1890.

337#765
Up 36 rank positions in five years
2021

Recorded in Latin; in U.S. records from 1885.

100#1,664
Up 191 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1911.

72#2,073
Down 287 rank positions in five years
1991

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1997.

633#479
Up 557 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1881.

52#2,555
Down 395 rank positions in five years
2004

Recorded in Latin; in U.S. records from 1918.

70#2,092
Down 126 rank positions in five years
2014

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1910.

101#1,654
Up 816 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Latin; in U.S. records from 1913.

230#991
Up 987 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

6#11,167
Down 4,403 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Latin; in U.S. records from 1992.

38#3,176
Down 1,012 rank positions in five years
2015

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1890.

6#10,926
new
1916

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

45#2,803
Up 475 rank positions in five years
2025

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1917.

11#7,554
Down 3,171 rank positions in five years
2012

Latin-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1992.

8#9,584
Up 2,234 rank positions in five years
2021

Page 1 of 1

Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

Related lists