Aegidius
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Greek saint name from a word for 'shield of Zeus'; variants incl. Gillius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aegidius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 50Kas Ægidius
- NONorway≈1 in 901Kas Ægidius
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aegidius itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
118 named Ægidius
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ægidius in DK Denmark, NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek saint name from a word for 'shield of Zeus'; variants incl. Gillius
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aegidius is read(measured from records)
Aegidius is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German53%
Greek saint name from a word for 'shield of Zeus'; variants incl. Gillius
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from Greek aigis 'goatskin'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Dutch12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aegidius in Dutch.
- English5.3%
A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aegidius in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aegidius counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 118as Ægidius | 1 in 50K | 118 | Ægidius | 25 |
| NO Norway | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 901K | — | Ægidius | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 239 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | listed | — | — |
118 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the french-names-benoist-2009 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aegidius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Original Latin form of GILES , sometimes used in Germany.
as a word
In Latin, a male given name, equivalent to English Giles
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gilesb. 640GRnot in their usual nameChristian hermit
- Giles of Romeb. 1243FRnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic archbishop
- Gil Álvarez de Albornozb. 1310ESnot in their usual name14th century Spanish cardinal, archbishop, Chancellor of Toledo and ecclesiastical leader
- Egidius de Franciab. 1400FRnot in their usual namemedieval French composer and musicologist
- Aegidius Tschudib. 1505CHSwiss historian (1505-1572)
- Aegidius Hunniusb. 1550DEGerman theologian
- Aegidius Geleniusb. 1595DEGerman historian (1595-1656)
- Aegidius Strauchb. 1632DEGerman theologian (1632-1682)
- Johann Aegidius Bachb. 1645DEGerman organist, father of Johann Bernhard Bach
- Aegidius Rudolph Nicolaus Arntzb. 1812DEGerman jurist and opinion journalist (1812-1884)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 239 | #2,593 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 70 | #9,789 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #162,029 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aegidius mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek saint name from a word for 'shield of Zeus'; variants incl. Gillius Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Aegidius a male or female name?
- Aegidius is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Aegidius?
- In the etymology graph, Gilles, Egidio and Egidijus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Aegidius have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 118 people named Ægidius, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Aegidius most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aegidius is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aegidius?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Aegidius in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aegidiusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aegidius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.