Eloï

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Eloï is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).

  • ESSpain1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 15K
  • ALAlbania1 in 102K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

14,572 people, 2022

Record sources
249 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eloi in FR France, ES Spain, US United States and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Eloï: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Eloï
  1. FrenchÉloi(measured from records)
  2. Medieval LatinEligius(measured from records)
  3. Latinēligere“to pick“to pick, to choose from”(measured from records)

From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Eloï 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.

Where Eloï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil14,5721 in 15K19K—1
ES Spain4,9041 in 10K4.9KEloi43
US United States3051 in 1.1M454Eloi62
FR France≈80 est.≈1 in 861K9.9KEloi249
CM Cameroon≈72 est.≈1 in 402K—Eloi2
AL Albania301 in 102K16——
FI Finland151 in 371K42—3
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——

14,572 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Eloï is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Eloi, Éloi, Eloí, Elói

  • Portuguese given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian

    Also written Eloi, Elói, Eloí, Elôi, Éloi

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Eloï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Eloï mean, and where does it come from?
From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
Is Eloï a male or female name?
Eloï is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Eloï have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Eloï, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Eloï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eloï is densest in Spain — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eloï?
In Brazil, the national register counted 14,572 people named Eloï in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.

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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, “Eloï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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