Given name
Héloïse
“to pick, to choose from”
Héloïse is a French form of Eloise with an eighteenth-century literary revival.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Héloïse is a form of Éloïse. Éloïse goes back to Latin ēligō, meaning “to pick, to choose from.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In French use, Héloïse has a related form in Éloise. Éloise has been associated with Germanic and French naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French use, Héloïse is used as a variant of Eloise.
The story
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel La Nouvelle Héloïse, published in 1761, helped renew interest in this spelling in the eighteenth century.
Héloïse’s family of names
In French usage, Héloïse has a later derivative in Heloise. In French usage, Héloïse has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Eloise. In French usage, Héloïse has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Eloisa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Héloïse has relatives in 7 languages.
6 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Héloïse
- Heloise12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer1101–1164
- Rahim RedcarFrench singer and songwriterborn 1988
- Héloïse ColinFrench draughtsperson, illustrator and painter (1820-1874)1819–1873
- Heloïse Dennermember of the National Assembly of South Africa
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