# Eloise (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eloise/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɛləʊˈiːz/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Eloïse |
| US babies named this | 72,815 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 116 / 72,699 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14,942, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 679 | 449 |
| 2012 | 860 | 363 |
| 2013 | 955 | 337 |
| 2014 | 1,081 | 302 |
| 2015 | 1,265 | 254 |
| 2016 | 1,567 | 208 |
| 2017 | 1,630 | 190 |
| 2018 | 1,743 | 167 |
| 2019 | 1,902 | 149 |
| 2020 | 1,970 | 137 |
| 2021 | 2,547 | 109 |
| 2022 | 2,905 | 86 |
| 2023 | 2,924 | 81 |
| 2024 | 3,443 | 64 |
| 2025 | 4,251 | 49 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 5 | 4,497 |
| 1924 | 6 | 4,013 |
| 1926 | 6 | 3,842 |
| 1927 | 10 | 2,765 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,834 |
| 1929 | 8 | 3,062 |
| 1931 | 10 | 2,529 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,170 |
| 1933 | 5 | 3,810 |
| 1934 | 9 | 2,617 |
| 1935 | 7 | 3,047 |
| 1936 | 5 | 3,702 |
| 1937 | 5 | 3,687 |
| 1939 | 6 | 3,222 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,575 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 501 | 116 |
| 2012 | 515 | 110 |
| 2013 | 537 | 105 |
| 2014 | 508 | 112 |
| 2015 | 559 | 101 |
| 2016 | 503 | 112 |
| 2017 | 464 | 119 |
| 2018 | 482 | 107 |
| 2019 | 394 | 129 |
| 2020 | 386 | 129 |
| 2021 | 492 | 106 |
| 2022 | 544 | 88 |
| 2023 | 440 | 109 |
| 2024 | 556 | 85 |
| 2025 | 546 | 83 |

## People named Eloise

- Eloise Mumford, American actress
- Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau, Dutch noble
- Eloise Blaine Cram, American zoologist (1896-1957)
- Amy-Eloise Markovc, English long-distance runner (b. 1995)
- Eloise Wellings, Australian long-distance runner
- Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American writer (1915–2000)
- Ovidie, French director, author, sex educator and pornographic actress
- Diana Palmer, American romance novelist

## 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.