# Alois (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alois/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,711 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,525 / 186 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 19, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 16 | 2,311 |
| 1925 | 7 | 4,043 |
| 1926 | 9 | 3,275 |
| 1927 | 8 | 3,566 |
| 1928 | 9 | 3,173 |
| 1929 | 7 | 3,688 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,673 |
| 1931 | 9 | 2,984 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,908 |
| 1933 | 5 | 4,234 |
| 1934 | 5 | 4,299 |
| 1935 | 9 | 2,930 |
| 1938 | 10 | 2,739 |
| 1940 | 7 | 3,512 |
| 1944 | 7 | 3,695 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 12 | 2,330 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3,320 |
| 1971 | 8 | 3,668 |
| 1975 | 9 | 3,667 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,302 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,221 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,177 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,743 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,151 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,244 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,772 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,341 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,806 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,018 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8,949 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Alois

- Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
- Alois Senefelder, German actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
- Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (1851–1930)
- Alois Brunner, Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1912–2010)
- Alois Hába, Czech music educator and composer (1893-1973)
- Alois Mock, Austrian politician (1934-2017)
- Alois Riegl, Austrian art historian (1858-1905)
- Alois Musil, Czech theologian, orientalist and explorer (1868–1944)
- Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Czech nobleman (1854-1912)
- Alois Eliáš, Czechoslovak general and politician (1890-1942)
- Alois Riehl, Austrian philosopher (1844-1924)
- Alois Negrelli, engineer and railway pioneer from the Austrian Empire (1799-1858)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.