Fun Facts About the Name Aous
- 149 babies named Aous: U.S. records list 149 babies given the name Aous from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aous Mean?
Aous is a Latin-alphabet spelling of the Arabic masculine name Aws (أوس). In Arabic the noun aws means "wolf," and that is the meaning commonly attached to the name. It is a single Arabic word used as a personal name rather than a compound of two elements, so the sense is literal, not a later symbolic reading. The name has no widely accepted second, independent etymology, though the origin of the old tribal name Aws itself - whether it began as an animal word, a personal name, or something else - is not fully settled.
Aous Name History & Origins
Aws is an Arabic name that predates Islam. In the oasis of Yathrib, later Medina, the two leading Arab tribes were the Aws and the Khazraj, and the Aws traced their descent to an ancestor named Aws ibn Haritha. Members of both tribes who backed Muhammad after the migration to Medina came to be called the Ansar, and several of them carried the personal name Aws, most notably Aws ibn Thabit, a poet of the Ansar.
The name stayed in use in Arabic-speaking regions, and the spelling Aous belongs to the Latin-alphabet transliteration traditions of the Arab world, above all the French-influenced ones, in which the letter group aou is used for the Arabic diphthong. English and scholarly writing more often gives the name as Aws or Aus. The difference between Aous and Aws is one of spelling convention rather than of a separate name.
How Popular is the Name Aous?
Aous has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #3,978 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,411 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2024 | #3,978 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2023 | #5,079 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #6,501 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #8,213 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #10,687 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #7,690 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #5,334 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #6,714 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #8,192 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #12,215 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #12,234 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Aous Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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