Heloise
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forme médiévale de Louise; origine germanique, « glorieux vainqueur »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛlwaz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heloise is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 14K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.5K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 40K
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)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
15,298 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forme médiévale de Louise; origine germanique, « glorieux vainqueur ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Heloise is read(measured from records)
Heloise is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French68%
Forme médiévale de Louise; origine germanique, « glorieux vainqueur ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Portuguese20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Heloise in Portuguese.
- English9.5%
US columnist; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heloise 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 | 15,298 | 1 in 14K | 15K | Heloise | 96 |
| FR France | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 28K | Heloise | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Heloise | 12 |
| US United States | 434 | 1 in 766K | 433 | Heloise | 54 |
| BE Belgium | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 25 | Heloise | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Heloise | 2 |
15,298 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Heloise is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Eloïse.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, aus dem Französisdien entlehnter weibl. Vom. germanischer Herkunft (wahr scheinlich zu ahd. heil »gesund, unversehrt, heil« + ahd. witu »Holz, Wald«). Rousseaus erfolgreicher Roman »La nouvelle Heloise« (1761), der auf das unglückliche mittelalterli che Liebespaar Abelard und Heloise anspielt, hatte nur einen bescheidenen Einfluss auf die französische Namengebung des 18. und
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Héloïse d’Argenteuilb. 1101FR12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer
- Héloïse Colinb. 1819FRFrench draughtsperson, illustrator and painter (1820-1874)
- Héloïse Durant Roseb. 1853USAmerican playwright
- Annie Heloise Abelb. 1873GBAmerican historian born in England
- Héloïse d'Ormessonb. 1962FRFrench publisher
- Héloïse Rauthb. 1978FRFrench actress
- Christine and the Queensb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer and songwriter
- Héloïse Masb. 1988FRFrench mezzo-soprano
- Héloïse Guérinb. 1989FRFrench fashion model
- Héloïse Martinb. 1996FRFrench actor
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 15K | #1,277 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.1K | #3,783 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.1K | #1,703 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 1K | #2,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 433 | #22,790 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80 | #1,277 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #22,790 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Heloise?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛlwaz/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Heloise mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forme médiévale de Louise; origine germanique, « glorieux vainqueur ».
- Is Heloise a male or female name?
- Heloise is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Heloise have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Heloise, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heloise.
- How common is the name Heloise?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,298 people named Heloise in 2022, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heloiseThe 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, “Heloise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.