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Alois

#8,945 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Aloysius

Alois has been given to 2,711 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,945 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 106 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Alois, 2025

1 in 414,000

Alois over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Alois over time

In 2025, Alois went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Alois: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Aloysius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alois means

Alois is a form of Aloysius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alois → Aloysius → Louis. The family’s meaning is “loud; famous + battle”, recorded in English with the source elements hlūdaz and wīgą.

Origin, language, and formation

Alois is used in Czech and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aloysius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Alois is pronounced [ˈaloɪs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,525 boys were recorded with the name Alois between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 1918; its best national rank was #524 in 1891.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,171 in 2015 to #8,945 in 2025.

In the United States, 186 girls were recorded with the name Alois between 1915 and 1944. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,310 in 1924.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alois?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,945
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alois sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alois. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aloiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alois was born before 1924 — so the typical Alois is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
282
People you could plausibly meet
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1910s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (695).

Is Alois rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,068
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1918 (106)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#524
1891

Spellings of Alois

Alois is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 35.2% against Alois's 0.22%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alois is used

Across 1910–2025, Alois was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 55,838 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 7,692
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 20,000
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 33,333
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alois has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alois around the world

Where Alois ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #175
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1963–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Alois

People whose public names include Alois, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alois in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alois. Linked forms have their own page here.

AloysAloisiusAloysiusLoïsAlojsAlojzLojzeAlajosAloizsAlojzyAloïseAloīzsAloisio

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alois by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,945
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#524
1891
Peak year
1918
106 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,525
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,310
1924
Peak year
1924
16 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1944
All-time count
186
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alois

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AlonAlonzaAlonsoAloysAloysiusLoisAlonzoAlonteCloisFrancoisAlontaeAlokAloAlondraAlondoDeloisAloiseDoisAloniabAloysuisAlontaAlondreAlohiAloysious

Names with a curve like Alois

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alois, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MelvilleLudwigAdelbertDurwardOthoVivianMilburnFayHilbertClareHazelWorth

Sibling names for Alois

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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