Given name
Elois
“one who is famous in battle”
In English use, Elois has a related form in Heloise. One French interpretation is “one who is famous in battle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Elois has a related form in Heloise. One French interpretation is “one who is famous in battle.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1895. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Elois through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,652
- 10 boys · 2,642 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 79 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 75 in 1935. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,120 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Elois’s family of names
In English usage, Elois shares an earlier linguistic root with Heloise. Elois has a related form in Elouis. In English usage, Elois has a related form in Heloise.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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.
People named Elois
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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