About the name Aloysius
Aloysius belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Aloysius first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #312 in 1893, and in 2024 21 babies received the name — 5,704 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.