Eloa

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Eloa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name171 records spelled Eloa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Eloá

• Swahili given name125 records spelled Eloa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Eloá

• Arabic given name26 records spelled Eloa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Eloá

• a separate name22 records spelled Eloa3 spellings in the group

  Also written Eloá

• Italian given name14 records spelled Eloa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy

  Also written Eloá

• Russian name11 records spelled Eloa5 spellings in the group

  Also written Элоа, Eloá

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses●

Eloa 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 Finnish, partitive singular of elo

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, pilsēta Lielbritānijā, Skotijā, ziemeļaustrumos no Glāzgovas

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 10 years between 1940–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eloa?

We estimate roughly 122 thousand people bear Eloa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Eloa have the most bearers?

We estimate about 121 thousand people bear Eloa in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eloa.

Where is Eloa most common?

Eloa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Eloa compared with other names?

In Brazil, Eloa is the 463rd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Eloa a male or female name?

Eloa 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.