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Eloy

#3,009 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eligius

Eloy has been given to 8,325 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #3,009 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Eloy, 2025

1 in 80,900

Eloy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eloy: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eligius

French

What Eloy means

Eloy is a form of Eligius.

Origin, language, and formation

Eloy is used in Spanish. Its origins include French.

Eloy comes through Latin Eligius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eligius and Eligio.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Eloy is pronounced /eˈloi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,325 boys were recorded with the name Eloy between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 1993; its best national rank was #700 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,629 in 2020 to #3,009 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,536 in 2015 to #3,009 in 2025.

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 Eloy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 41,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,009
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eloy 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eloy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eloys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eloy was born before 1973 — so the typical Eloy is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
12.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,383
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 12.3% of all recorded uses (1,020).

Is Eloy 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
−330
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−380
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−473
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.7%
Peak was 1993 (118)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#700
1946

Spellings of Eloy

Eloy is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 24.6% against Eloy's 0.50%.

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 Eloy is used

Across 1910–2025, Eloy was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 833 boys, against 1 in 10,699 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

0120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 833
  2. 2Texas1 in 3,571
  3. 3Colorado1 in 7,692
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

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. Eloy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eloy around the world

Where Eloy 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
    2011–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1903–2025
    #1,771
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

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

Notable people named Eloy

People whose public names include Eloy, 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.

Eloy in other languages

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

EloiEligioElóiEligiusEligiusz

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

Eloy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,009
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 380
Best rank ever
#700
1946
Peak year
1993
118 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,325
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Eloy

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

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Names with a curve like Eloy

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

RosendoSheltonAlfonzoArnulfoFedericoReymundoLeopoldoErasmoEugenioJacquesReyesBenito

Sibling names for Eloy

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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