Given name & surname
Eloi
“the chosen one”
Eloi is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “the chosen one.”
Original FrenchÉloi
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “the chosen one.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, from Latin ēligō (“to pick, to choose from”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eloi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,830 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,830 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 305 as a first name in 2020; 454 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.
Eloi’s family of names
Eloi shares a linguistic root with Eloy. Eloi has a related form in Eligio. Eloi is a form of Eloy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
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 Eloi
- Eloi MetullusHaitian Olympic Bronze Medal winner and sport shooter1892
- Lo La ChapelleDutch footballer (1888-1966)
- Eloi AmagatSpanish footballerborn 1985
- Eloi ManiraguhaRwandan swimmerborn 1995
- Eloi Alphonse Maxime DovoMalagasy diplomatborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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