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Elois

Girls' name

Extracted, through Éloïse

Elois has been given to 2,652 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1935, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Elois, 1976

1 in 506,000

Elois over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elois: meaning, origin, and history

Extracted, through Éloïse

French

What Elois means

Elois belongs to the name family reached through Elois → Éloïse → ēligō. Its meaning is “extracted”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Éloïse, from the Medieval Latin and French forms that gave rise to its doublet Heloise.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Elois (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Elois is used in English. Its origins include French.

Elois comes through French Éloïse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Heloise, Éloïse and ēligō.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Elois is pronounced /ɛləʊˈiːz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,642 girls were recorded with the name Elois between 1895 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1935; its best national rank was #781 in 1935.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Elois between 1922 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,376 in 1927.

How common is Elois?

Elois had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976
1 in 506,000
6 of 3,034,007 births
Among girls only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1976
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
350,503 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elois sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1976 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 350,503 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elois. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eloiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elois was born before 1935 — so the typical Elois is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
536
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (637).

Is Elois 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1935 (75)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#781
1935

Spellings of Elois

Elois is not the most common spelling — Lois is, with 34.2% against Elois's 0.27%.

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 Elois is used

Across 1910–2025, Elois was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 71,928 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 9,091
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Elois has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elois around the world

Where Elois 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
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • France
    2000–2013
    #6,064
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Elois by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#781
1935
Peak year
1935
75 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
2,642
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,376
1927
Peak year
1922
5 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elois

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

ElonaElowenElowynElodiaEloraElodieEloisaElodyEloahEloniElouiseElorahElondaElonEloaElodiElowynnEloiseDeloisElovieEloizaEloyceElorieClois

Names with a curve like Elois

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

RuthaWilleneErleneEarleanMardellLoyceVerdellInellWilliaBernardineReathaArletta

Sibling names for Elois

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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