Alois
Masculine · “Germanic hlod and wig”
Alois is given to both — 2,525 boys and 186 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Louis and Clovis are the same name. The Frankish Chlodovech, held by the king who converted in about 496, became Clovis in French for the early kings and Louis for everyone after, so eighteen French kings and one Merovingian share a name that looks like two.
How old is the name Alois?
Alois was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Alois alive today was born around 1924, making them about 101 years old. About 400 people named Alois are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alois most popular?
Alois peaked in 1891, reaching #524 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 8,386 places below that high. See the whole 1891 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Chlodovech to Alois
The story of Alois
Chlodovech was king of the Franks from 481 and converted to Nicene Christianity around 496, which aligned the Frankish monarchy with the Gallo-Roman church and shaped the next thousand years of French history. His name went through Latin as Chlodovechus and then Ludovicus, and French produced two outcomes from it: Clovis, kept as a historical form for the early Merovingians, and Louis, used for everyone from Louis the Pious onward. German kept Ludwig, Italian produced Luigi and Ludovico, Spanish Luis, Hungarian Lajos. Aloysius is a further step: an Italian Latinization of Luigi made in the sixteenth century for scholarly and religious use, which then traveled back into German and Czech as Alois. Four European languages therefore carry four unrecognizable versions of one Frankish king's name.
Meaning
Germanic hlod and wig, fame and battle
Alois is the German and Czech form of Aloysius, a Latinization of Italian Luigi, which is Louis, from Frankish Chlodovech, joining hlod, fame or glory, to wig, battle. The Latin form was popularized by St Aloysius Gonzaga, who died in 1591. The same Frankish name is written Clovis for the fifth-century king and Ludwig in German. The American peak is 1891.
How the name formed
- Chlodovech
- Ludovicus
- Luigi
- Aloysius
- Alois
Related forms: Alois · Alois · Aloysius · Louis
Pronouncing Alois
AH-loh-ees
Three syllables, stress on the first in German and Czech. English speakers often say uh-LOYS, treating the oi as a diphthong, which German does not.
Nicknames for Alois
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 1918106 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #524reached in 1891
- Change vs 2023
- +14.3%8 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alois in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alois in German — same name
- Alois in Czech — same name
- Aloysius in English — same name
- Louis in French — related form
Aloiss among us
people named Alois are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Alois
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Alois sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Alois beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alois in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Al is available as a familiar short form.
- The name is standard across German-speaking and Czech Europe.
- It has a documented history back to the fifth century.
- English and German divide the syllables differently.
- Aloysius is the fuller and better-known English form.
- The 1891 peak places it in the immigrant generation.
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Masculine · #8910 in the U.S.
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- How many Aloiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Alois are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Alois in 2025?
- Alois ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alois?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Alois — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alois with classmates?
- Alois will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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