Elloise
Feminine · “healthy and wide”
Elloise is a spelling of Eloise, a French name that came from a Germanic compound and is best known through a twelfth-century letter-writer whose correspondence is still read.
How old is the name Elloise?
Elloise first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Elloise is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Elloise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elloise most popular?
Elloise peaked in 1934, reaching #2567 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 822 places below that high. See the whole 1934 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Helewidis to Elloise
The story of Elloise
Héloïse of the Paraclete wrote letters to Abelard in the twelfth century that have been read continuously ever since, and her name is the reason Eloise exists in French and English at all. It passed into English use in the Middle Ages and again in the nineteenth century. A mid-twentieth-century children's book about a girl living in a New York hotel gave it a second and quite different life in America, and the spellings multiplied afterwards.
Meaningscholars disagree
healthy and wide
The usual derivation takes Eloise from the Germanic Helewidis, joining elements meaning healthy or whole and wide. A second account connects it to Louise, from a different Germanic compound meaning famous warrior; the two names have influenced each other in French for centuries.
How the name formed
- Helewidis
- Héloïse
- Eloise
- Elloise
Related forms: Héloïse · Eloise · Eloísa
Pronouncing Elloise
EL-oh-weez
Three syllables, first stressed, in English. French says ay-loh-EEZ, with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Elloise
High
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
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 202545 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2567reached in 1934
- Change vs 2024
- +95.7%45 in 2025, from 23
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.
Elloise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Héloïse in French — same name
- Eloise in English — spelling variant
- Eloísa in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, California.
Elloises among us
people named Elloise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Elloise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elloise
- #3389
- Elloise on the 2025 chart
- #57
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elloise went to 45 girls in 2025, but Eloise is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 4,296, which makes it the 57th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,332 places above the chart.
- Eloise4,251
- Elloise45
About 1 girl in 374 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Elloise itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anola test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elloise's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anola climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anola's path sketches the road Elloise is walking now.
Elloise 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
Where Elloise is headed
Elloise should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Elloise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elloise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented record reaching back to one of the most famous correspondences in European history.
- Ellie and Elle are both ready short forms, current and warm.
- The sound is familiar in English and French alike.
- Eloise is the standard spelling and the doubled l will be corrected constantly.
- The English and French pronunciations differ in stress entirely.
- The children's book heroine is the first association for many Americans, and she is a handful.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elloises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Elloise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elloise?
- Elloise is one of 2 recorded spellings. Eloise is the more common one — 4,251 births in 2025 against 45 for Elloise.
- How popular is the name Elloise in 2025?
- Elloise ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elloise?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Elloise — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elloise with classmates?
- Elloise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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