Eloí

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Eloí is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. 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”).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 10K◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 15K
  • MXMexico1 in 221K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈30K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
107 ●

25K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.9K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eloi in BR Brazil, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 18 more.

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

Meaning & origin●

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

Sources 3

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

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eloí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#96714,57218K rec.1 in 15K19KEloi107
FR France—9,8550 rec.1 in 6.9K9.9K—1
ES Spain—4,9042.5K rec.1 in 10K4.9KEloi95
MX Mexico—1,440608 rec.——Eloi39
AR Argentina—1,266942 rec.—4Eloi28
CL Chile—39257 rec.—2Eloi15
PT Portugal—330158 rec.—listedEloi44
VE Venezuela—295288 rec.——Eloi8
US United States—2751K rec.1 in 1.2M454Eloi82
PE Peru—246216 rec.——Eloi12
PY Paraguay—11169 rec.——Eloi5
UY Uruguay—10876 rec.——Eloi11

Roughly 15K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 15K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese19K100%
  • Spanish141%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese18,646100%
Spanish141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eloí is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 records spelled Eloí9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Martinique, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Eloi, Éloi, Eloï, Éloï, Elói

  • English given name2 records spelled Eloí15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Canada, United States, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Eloi, Éloi, Eloï, Elói

  • a separate given name1 records spelled Eloí4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Eloi, Éloi, Elói

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●

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Eloí
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—19K#1,464
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)20211—

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eloí?
We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Eloí (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Eloí have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Eloí in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eloi.
Where is Eloí most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eloí is densest in France — about 1 in 6.9 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is Eloí compared with other names?
In Brazil, Eloí is the 967th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Eloí a male or female name?
Eloí is a male 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.
What does the name Eloí mean?
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”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Eloí” — the 967th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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