# Arcadius (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arcadius/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | “of arcadia” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 77 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Latin Arcadius, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκάδιος (Arkádios, “of Arcadia”). See Arcadia for more information.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 12,418 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9,746 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9,823 |
| 2020 | 18 | 5,052 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,630 |
| 2022 | 7 | 9,905 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,246 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,312 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Արկադիոս
- Bulgarian: Аркадий
- French: Arcadius, Arcade
- German: Arcadius
- Greek: Αρκάδιος
- Italian: Arcadio
- Latin: Arcadius
- Polish: Arkadiusz
- Portuguese: Arcádio
- Russian: Арка́дий
- Spanish: Arcadio

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.