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Alexius

“defender”

masculineLatin script

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Origin: Ancient Greek
5 language contexts: English German Dutch +2 more
Follow the evidence: 11 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Alexius

Alexius is a masculine given name documented in English, German, Dutch and 2 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Ancient Greek Ἀλέξιος via Latin. English Wikipedia gives the meaning “defender”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Alexíus (Icelandic)

2 source accounts

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “defender”

From Latin Alexius, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξιος (Aléxios) or Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr.

gr.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Alexius is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Alexius’s connections around the world.

3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2018: 6 boys (rank 10760). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Alexius

Region and dataset

Latest · 2017: 8; applications; Rank #11,615
Peak year: 1998; 121 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Alexius in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	6	8,562	observed
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	6	9,095	observed
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	16	4,527	observed
1983	11	5,824	observed
1984	16	4,478	observed
1985	5	10,677	observed
1986	8	7,749	observed
1987	5	11,325	observed
1988	5	11,798	observed
1989	6	10,847	observed
1990	20	4,694	observed
1991	29	3,633	observed
1992	33	3,343	observed
1993	56	2,289	observed
1994	79	1,810	observed
1995	96	1,576	observed
1996	112	1,466	observed
1997	119	1,406	observed
1998	121	1,416	observed
1999	107	1,573	observed
2000	89	1,900	observed
2001	93	1,872	observed
2002	74	2,228	observed
2003	49	3,043	observed
2004	54	2,927	observed
2005	56	2,902	observed
2006	56	3,017	observed
2007	38	4,050	observed
2008	33	4,550	observed
2009	24	5,709	observed
2010	22	5,977	observed
2011	18	6,855	observed
2012	14	8,208	observed
2013	12	9,036	observed
2014	7	13,069	observed
2015	7	13,006	observed
2016	5	16,215	observed
2017	8	11,615	observed
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Alexius” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Alexius— “helper”
Alexius, _m._ _Lat._ Gr. helper, 85
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Alexius Meinong
1853–1920
Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Alexius with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q17501672CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Portuguese Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Alexius.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Alexius.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Alexius

Separate records with matching spellings: Alexíus (Icelandic)

2 source accounts

Ancient Greek origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “defender”

From Latin Alexius, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξιος (Aléxios) or Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedgr.

gr.

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Alexius is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Alexius’s connections around the world.

3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2018: 6 boys (rank 10760). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Alexius

Region and dataset

Latest · 2017: 8; applications; Rank #11,615
Peak year: 1998; 121 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Alexius in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	6	8,562	observed
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	6	9,095	observed
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	16	4,527	observed
1983	11	5,824	observed
1984	16	4,478	observed
1985	5	10,677	observed
1986	8	7,749	observed
1987	5	11,325	observed
1988	5	11,798	observed
1989	6	10,847	observed
1990	20	4,694	observed
1991	29	3,633	observed
1992	33	3,343	observed
1993	56	2,289	observed
1994	79	1,810	observed
1995	96	1,576	observed
1996	112	1,466	observed
1997	119	1,406	observed
1998	121	1,416	observed
1999	107	1,573	observed
2000	89	1,900	observed
2001	93	1,872	observed
2002	74	2,228	observed
2003	49	3,043	observed
2004	54	2,927	observed
2005	56	2,902	observed
2006	56	3,017	observed
2007	38	4,050	observed
2008	33	4,550	observed
2009	24	5,709	observed
2010	22	5,977	observed
2011	18	6,855	observed
2012	14	8,208	observed
2013	12	9,036	observed
2014	7	13,069	observed
2015	7	13,006	observed
2016	5	16,215	observed
2017	8	11,615	observed
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Alexius— “helper”
Alexius, _m._ _Lat._ Gr. helper, 85
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Alexius Meinong
1853–1920
Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q17501672CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
German Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Greek Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Portuguese Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
French Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikipedia: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: AlexiusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences2

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Alexius.wavCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wikimedia Commons: File:De-Alexius.oggCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Alexius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Alexius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Alexius Meinong

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Alexius

Ancient Greek origin

Where Alexius is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Alexius Meinong

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page