Heloisa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ilojzɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heloisa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 668K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
170,479 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Heloisa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #342 | 170,479 | 1 in 1.2K | 170K | Heloisa | 178 |
| US United States | — | 498 | 1 in 668K | 498 | Heloisa | 155 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Heloisa | 6 |
| PT Portugal | #825 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Heloisa | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 142 | 1 in 352K | 142 | Heloisa | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 98 | 1 in 57K | 192 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 10 | Heloisa | 6 |
170,479 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Heloísa Alberto Torresb. 1895BRBrazilian anthropologist
- Heloísa Helenab. 1917BRBrazilian actress (1917-1999)
- Heloísa Liberalli Bellottob. 1935BRBrazilian professor
- Heloísa Teixeirab. 1939BRBrazilian literary critic (1939–2025)
- Helô Pinheirob. 1943BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian model and actress
- Heloísa Milletb. 1947BRBrazilian actress (1947-2013)
- Heloisa Prietob. 1954BRBrazilian writer, cultural researcher, translator
- Heloísa Helenab. 1962BRBrazilian politician
- Heloísa Périsséb. 1966BRBrazilian actress
- Heloísa Apolóniab. 1969PTPortuguese politician of the 3rd republic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 170K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 170K | #196 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 126K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 65K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 61K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 59K | #685 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 59K | #256 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 44K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 29K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 24K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 22K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Heloisa?
- A machine transcription gives /ilojzɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Heloisa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 170 thousand people named Heloisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heloisa.
- Where is Heloisa most common?
- Heloisa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Heloisa a male or female name?
- Heloisa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV) and Spain (INE).
- How common is the name Heloisa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 170,479 people named Heloisa in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Heloisa compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Heloisa is the 342nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Heloisa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heloisaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heloisa” — the 342nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.