Eloise
Feminine
Eloise is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 72,699 girls against 116 boys since 1880.
Eloise came into English from the French Héloïse, a name carried through medieval Europe and best known there from the twelfth-century scholar Héloïse d'Argenteuil, whose letters are still read. In the 1950s Kay Thompson gave it to the small girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel in her picture books, and the name has been climbing steadily in English-speaking countries ever since. Three syllables, with that long final -eez that lets the whole name ring out.
How old is the name Eloise?
Eloise was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Eloise alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 43,000 people named Eloise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eloise most popular?
Eloise peaked in 2025, reaching #49 nationally. Today it ranks #49, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Helewidis to Eloise
The story of Eloise
The name belongs to the Frankish naming stock that spread through northern France after the fall of Rome, surfacing in Old French records as Helewidis and later smoothing into Héloïse. It traveled into English mainly through French literary and religious channels, losing its accents on the way and settling as Eloise and Heloise. Italian and Spanish kept their own versions, Eloisa and Eloísa. English speakers have used it steadily rather than heavily for well over a century, and it has been rising again in the United States, Canada and Britain alike.
Meaningscholars disagree
Most often traced to Germanic elements meaning "healthy" and "wide"
The usual derivation is from an Old Frankish name reconstructed as Helewidis, from heil "hale, healthy" and wid "wide". A competing line connects it instead to the same Germanic root as Louis and Louise, hlud "famous" and wig "battle", the two names having influenced each other in medieval French. Neither reading has fully won, and both are taken seriously.
How the name formed
- Helewidis
- Héloïse
- Heloise
- Eloise
Related forms: Héloïse · Heloise · Eloisa · Eloísa · Heloísa · Eloisa
Pronouncing Eloise
EL-oh-eez
Stress falls on the first syllable in most American use, though some families stress the last: el-oh-EEZ. The final consonant is usually a z; a softer -eece ending is also heard. The French Héloïse is ay-loh-EEZ.
Nicknames for Eloise
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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 girls named
- 20254,251 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #49reached in 2025
- Change vs 2022
- +46.3%4,251 in 2025, from 2,905
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.
Eloise in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Héloïse in French — same name
- Heloise in English — spelling variant
- Eloisa in Italian — same name
- Eloísa in Spanish — same name
- Heloísa in Portuguese — same name
- Eloisa in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York. International figures from Statistics Canada, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland. Sources
Eloises among us
people named Eloise are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 378 born in 2025 was named Eloise
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darlene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eloise's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darlene climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darlene's path sketches the road Eloise is walking now.
Eloise is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eloise is headed
Eloise looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 24% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
High 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.
Eloise beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eloise in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Documented in Europe since the Middle Ages and in continuous English use, so it is neither a new coinage nor tied to a single decade.
- Charts in Canada, England and Wales, and Scotland as well as the United States, so it travels well across English-speaking countries.
- Has ready-made short forms — Ellie, Lo, El — for a child who wants something shorter, without requiring one.
- Close cousins exist in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, giving relatives abroad a natural version to use.
- It sits in a crowded sound-neighborhood: Elise, Elisa, Eloisa and Heloise all get confused with it, and you can expect to spell it aloud fairly often.
- The nickname Ellie is currently shared with Eleanor, Ella, Elizabeth and Isabella, so a shortened Eloise may not stand out in a classroom.
- It is rising quickly, which means a child born now will meet more Eloises among her own age group than the wider population would suggest.
- The Kay Thompson books are a friendly association rather than a burden, but some people will mention the Plaza hotel girl every time they hear the name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eloises are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 43,000 people named Eloise are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eloise in 2025?
- Eloise ranks #49 among US girl names in 2025, with 4,251 babies given the name.
- How common is the name Eloise?
- About 1 in every 378 US girls born in 2025 was named Eloise — 4,251 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eloise with classmates?
- Eloise will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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