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Aquarius

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Aquarius is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “water carrier”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

What does Aquarius mean?

Latin: Latin name of the constellation

“water carrier”

Aquarius, the water-bearer, is a constellation and the eleventh sign of the zodiac.

Say it
a-KWAIR-ee-us

Is Aquarius a girl's or a boy's name?

Aquarius is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aquarius in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Aquarius, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 1971.

2025 had more boys named Aquarius than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Aquarius in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1971Busiest: 11 in 19962025
Aquarius in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20245#12,341
20230–
20220–
20210–
20208#8,734
20195#12,138
201810#7,613
20170–
20165#12,180
20158#8,739
20147#9,636
20130–
20120–
20110–
20107#9,686
20090–
20086#11,030
20077#9,782
20060–
20058#8,292
20046#9,941
20038#7,824
20025#10,660
200110#6,438
20005#10,341
199910#6,036
19986#8,472
19975#9,259
199611#5,180
19955#8,861
19946#7,764
19938#6,221
19926#7,414
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19845#6,311
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19715#4,905

Names like Aquarius

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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