Alois
Alois was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,945 among boys’ names; 2,711 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alois by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alois mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Alois is “a male given name, equivalent to English Aloysius”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alois?
#8,945 among boys’ names, 2025
Alois rose from #12,171 in 2015 to #8,945 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.7 per million.
111 babies in 1918, the peak
Alois peaked in 1918, when 111 babies were given it (106 boys, #592 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,945 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,801 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,336 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,767 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,239 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,147 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,738 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,171 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,214 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #6,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,036 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,765 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,123 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,220 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,735 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,494 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,401 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,368 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,269 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,109 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,159 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,360 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,199 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,148 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 42 | #949 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,093 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 64 | #793 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 70 | #765 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 56 | #888 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 52 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 60 | #872 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 53 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 56 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 80 | #744 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 70 | #792 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 64 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 73 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 71 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 84 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 106 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 98 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 104 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 86 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 69 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 54 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 51 | #561 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 27 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 16 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 11 | #897 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 12 | #779 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 15 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 14 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1905 | 8 | #922 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 11 | #723 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 15 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 8 | #865 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 8 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 9 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 12 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1898 | 9 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 12 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 6 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 6 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 12 | #598 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 12 | #524 | 0.12 |
| 1889 | 12 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 7 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 8 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 9 | #648 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 7 | #766 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 9 | #665 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 8 | #677 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 8 | #694 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 6 | #783 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 10 | #601 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alois a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,711 Americans recorded as Alois, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Alois: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alois, and how old are they?
An estimated 381 Americans named Alois and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 57 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 881 people named Alois (94 women and girls, 787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 503 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alois born?
The states with the most babies named Alois are Wisconsin, Minnesota and Texas, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 454 | not ranked | 7.5× |
| Minnesota | 156 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 142 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 86 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Dakota | 15 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Iowa | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Alois is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alois is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 7.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alois with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,961 babies since 1880, Alois is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 156 babies (5.1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alois
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alois and names like it
- Compare Alois and AliasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlois peaked in 1918.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alois since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Alois: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Alois.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alois alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.