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Aengus

#10,718 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly one

Aengus has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #10,718 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Aengus, 2025

1 in 553,000

Aengus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aengus: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly one

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aengus means

Aengus may mean “one”, associated with oín.

Origin, language, and formation

Aengus is used in Middle Irish.

Aengus comes through Old Irish Oíngus, Proto-Celtic *oinos, Proto-Indo-European *óynos, Proto-Celtic *gustus and Proto-Celtic *guseti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 boys were recorded with the name Aengus between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,700 in 2014.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,046 in 2015 to #10,718 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aengus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,718
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aengus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aengus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aenguss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aengus was born before 2014 — so the typical Aengus is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Aengus rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−803
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,672
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 2014 (20)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,700
2014

Spellings of Aengus

Aengus is not the most common spelling — Angus is, with 89.7% against Aengus's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aengus around the world

Where Aengus ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1964–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2016–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1992–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aengus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,718
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,700
2014
Peak year
2014
20 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
207
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Aengus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AeneasArgusFergusWilgusMargusAugusRodrigusRodregusAngusHargusVirgusNegusMingusLycurgusGus

Sibling names for Aengus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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