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It is a Latinisation of the names Alois, Louis, Lewis, Luis, Luigi, Ludwig, and other cognates (traditionally in Medieval Latin as Ludovicus or Chlodovechus), ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdawīgą ("famous battle"). In the US, the name is rare, with fewer than 0.001% of babies receiving the name since the 1940s.
Aloysius is a male given name.. Aloysius may also refer to: . Aloysius (song), song by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins Aloysius (teddy bear), the Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945
Alois (Latinized Aloysius) is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include Aloïs ( French ), Aloys ( German ), Alois ( Czech ), Alojz ( Slovak , Slovenian , Croatian ), Alojzy ( Polish ), Aloísio ( Portuguese , Spanish , Italian ), Alajos ( Hungarian ), and Aloyzas ( Lithuanian ).
This new group embraces names that were once considered hokey, like Abner and Hiram; names from non-English cultures like Navarone and Santos and even 'bad boy' country names associated with ...
Aloysius de Gonzaga as a boy. Gonzaga was born the eldest of eight children, at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantua in northern Italy in what was then part of the Duchy of Mantua, into a cadet branch of the illustrious House of Gonzaga. "Aloysius" is the Latin form of his given name in Italian, "Luigi". [1]
Names like Michael, Jessica, and Emily were among the top 5 most popular names for babies born in the 1990s, according to the Social Security Administration, and they're still plenty popular today.
Aloysius Snuffleupagus (/ ˌ s n ʌ f əl ˈ ʌ p ə ɡ ə s /), more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy for short, is one of the characters on Sesame Street, a PBS/HBO educational television program for young children.
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...