Elois
Elois was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 2,652 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elois by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elois mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elois is “Alternative form of Heloise, A female given name from French.”
From French Éloïse, from the Medieval Latin and French forms that gave rise to its doublet Heloise.
/ɛləʊˈiːz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elois?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,445, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
79 babies in 1927, the peak
Elois peaked in 1927, when 79 babies were given it (74 girls, #857 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #8,445 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,158 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,864 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,390 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,796 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,018 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,145 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,898 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,074 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,425 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 27 | #2,259 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,415 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,950 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,082 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,877 | 16.4 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,557 | 22.0 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,470 | 24.2 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,361 | 27.1 |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,457 | 23.7 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,342 | 26.7 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,434 | 23.9 |
| 1949 | 58 | #1,192 | 33.9 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,106 | 38.3 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,229 | 30.5 |
| 1946 | 58 | #1,116 | 36.9 |
| 1945 | 51 | #1,100 | 39.0 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,156 | 34.7 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,258 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 65 | #973 | 48.1 |
| 1941 | 53 | #1,007 | 43.9 |
| 1940 | 44 | #1,088 | 38.5 |
| 1939 | 50 | #1,000 | 45.6 |
| 1938 | 62 | #900 | 56.2 |
| 1937 | 58 | #906 | 54.5 |
| 1936 | 61 | #870 | 58.6 |
| 1935 | 75 | #781 | 71.5 |
| 1934 | 56 | #920 | 53.6 |
| 1933 | 67 | #816 | 66.5 |
| 1932 | 68 | #833 | 63.7 |
| 1931 | 70 | #813 | 65.7 |
| 1930 | 70 | #857 | 62.2 |
| 1929 | 66 | #882 | 59.1 |
| 1928 | 63 | #937 | 54.6 |
| 1927 | 74 | #857 | 62.1 |
| 1926 | 59 | #972 | 49.8 |
| 1925 | 65 | #925 | 53.4 |
| 1924 | 71 | #896 | 56.9 |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,020 | 45.6 |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,094 | 40.8 |
| 1921 | 65 | #921 | 52.7 |
| 1920 | 55 | #994 | 45.9 |
| 1919 | 55 | #957 | 48.7 |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,067 | 40.6 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,132 | 37.0 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,135 | 37.3 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,296 | 30.5 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,618 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,545 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,187 | 35.8 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,833 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,669 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,308 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,894 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,037 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,026 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,971 | 18.2 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,670 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elois a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elois has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elois: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elois, and how old are they?
An estimated 883 Americans named Elois and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,120 people named Elois (1,074 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Elois born?
The states with the most babies named Elois are Mississippi, Texas and Alabama, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 220 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 147 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 132 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 102 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 63 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 54 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Elois is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elois is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.0 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 girls’ 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 Elois 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,518 babies since 1880, Elois is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Elois (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Elois
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 Elois and names like it
- Compare Elois and ElisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sElois peaked in 1927.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elois since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Elois: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Elois.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elois alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.