Giles

Giles is derived from the Late Latin name Aegidius, itself from Greek αἰγίδιον (aigidion), meaning “young goat.” The name was popularized by Saint Giles, an 8th-century miracle worker who came to southern France from Greece and is regarded as the patron saint of the crippled. In Old French, Aegidius became Gidie and then Gilles, which was later imported into England. Another notable bearer was the 13th-century philosopher and theologian Giles of Rome, known in Italian as Egidio.

Giles rose from #981 to #954 for boys between 1954 and 1955. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 86 births.