Aengus
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 207since 1996
Aengus over time
Rank among boys' names. Aengus has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
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| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
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| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
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| 1996 | #9,015 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aengus! It came in at #9,015, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aengus
- 801 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #10,695)
- 2,655 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2014 at #4,702 (20 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 96,044 boys born in 2014 were named Aengus (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.7% of all boys named Aengus (105) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,015 (1996) | #9,015 |
| 2000s | 60 | #7,427 (2006) | #8,994 |
| 2010s | 105 | #4,702 (2014) | #7,582 |
| 2020s | 37 | #8,300 (2022) | #9,505 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aengus in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 378,860 of them was named Aengus, which outranked 14.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,521 names at #9,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.