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Heloise

#6,407 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to pick, to choose from

Heloise has been given to 705 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #6,407 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Heloise, 2025

1 in 184,000

Heloise over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heloise: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to pick, to choose from

French

What Heloise means

Heloise may mean “to pick, to choose from”, associated with ēligere.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Medieval Latin Heloisa under influence from French Héloïse, probably from French Éloi + -se (“-ess: feminizing nouns”), from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). Sometimes alternatively derived from Proto-Germanic reconstructed as *Hailawidiz, from *hailagaz (“holy”) or *hailaz (“whole, healthful”) and *widuz (“wood, forest”). As an English name, chiefly after Peter Abelard's beloved nun Heloise. Doublet of Eloise.

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Origin, language, and formation

Heloise is used in English. Its origins include French.

Heloise comes through Medieval Latin Heloisa, French Héloïse, French Éloi, Medieval Latin Eligius and Latin ēligō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eloise.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Heloise is pronounced /hɛləʊˈiːz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 705 girls were recorded with the name Heloise between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,164 in 1913.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,080 in 2020 to #6,407 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,717 in 2015 to #6,407 in 2025.

How common is Heloise?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,407
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heloise 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 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heloise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heloises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heloise was born before 1928 — so the typical Heloise is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
213
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Heloise 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
+5,077
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,673
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 1915 (24)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,164
1913

Spellings of Heloise

Heloise is not the most common spelling — Elise is, with 40.2% against Heloise's 0.38%.

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 Heloise is used

Across 1910–2025, Heloise was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 53,775 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000

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

Heloise around the world

Where Heloise 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
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–1976
    #516
    in 1976
  • Ireland
    1980–1980
    #483
    in 1980
  • France
    1900–2025
    #91
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Heloise by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,407
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,673
Best rank ever
#1,164
1913
Peak year
1915
24 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
705
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Heloise

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

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Sibling names for Heloise

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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