Given name & surname
Alois
“perfectly wise”
Alois is a masculine given name. It is used in English, German, and Czech.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alois goes back to a word meaning “perfectly wise.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Alois is a variant of Aloysius. A possible origin is Provençal, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alois through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,711
- 2,525 boys · 186 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 111 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,949 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +37%
- Rising
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 100% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,949 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 106 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 881 as a first name in 2020; 131 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alois’s family of names
In Bavarian usage, Alois has a short form in Lois. Alois shares a linguistic root with Aloysius. In German usage, Alois has a conventional equivalent in the Occitan form Aloys.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alois has relatives in 17 languages.
17 related names in 17 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Alois
- Alois AlzheimerGerman psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
- Alois HitlerAustrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
- Alois, Hereditary Prince of LiechtensteinHereditary Prince of Liechtensteinborn 1968
- Alois SenefelderGerman actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
- Alois JirásekCzech writer (1851–1930)
- Alois BrunnerAustrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1912–2010)
- Alois HábaCzech music educator and composer (1893-1973)
- Alois MockAustrian politician (1934-2017)
- Alois RieglAustrian art historian (1858-1905)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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