Eloi

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eloi is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Eligius, from eligere 'to choose'.

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:

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●

From Latin Eligius, from eligere 'to choose'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Eloi 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●

  • Portuguese322K77%
  • French48K12%
  • English20K5%
  • Spanish20K5%
  • Catalan4.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese322,12677%
French48,17312%
English20,0525%
Spanish20,0395%
Catalan4,9091%

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◐

Eloi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name61K records spelled Eloi9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Martinique, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Éloi, Eloï, Éloï, Elói, Èloi

  • English given name24K records spelled Eloi15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Canada, United States, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Éloi, Eloï, Eloí, Elói

  • a separate given name531 records spelled Eloi4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Éloi, Eloí, Elói

  • Hindi given name230 records spelled Eloi4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Éloi, Elói

  • Arabic given name221 records spelled Eloi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Elói, Eloï, Eloí, Éloi

50 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●

Eloi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From Latin Eligius, related to 'to choose'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Italian, do nome fr. Eloy/Eloi, adaptação de Eligius

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, forma francese di Eligio; dal latino Eligius, 'eletto'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In French, Du latin Eligius, «élu, choisi».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Latin origin; means « élu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

05101520190019201940196020 · 1924

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Eloi in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique), Martinique, 1900–1969
Yearrecords
19005
19015
190210
19035
190410
19055
19065
19075
190810
19095
191010
191110
19125
19135
191415
191515
19165
191710
19185
19195
19205
19215
19225
192310
192420
19255
192610
192710
192810
19295
193010
19315
19325
19335
193410
19355
193610
19375
193810
19395
19405
19415
194210
19435
194410
19455
19465
194710
194810
19495
195010
195110
19525
19535
19545
19555
195610
19575
19585
19595
19615
19625
19695

MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 63 years between 1900–1969. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Lo La Chapelle, b. 1888Eloi Portela Nunes Sobrinho, b. 1936Eloi Maxime Alphonse, b. 1956Elói Zorzetto, b. 1959Eloi Molí, b. 1978Eloi Yebra, b. 1980Eloi Rovira, b. 1982Eloi Amagat, b. 1985Eloi Maniraguha, b. 1995

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 64 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Eloi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—19K#1,463
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202215K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—12K#1,314
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.9K#583
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.9K#895
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.7K#417
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.3K#1,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020454#49,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010372#55,255
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020275#29,154
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024243—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000240#74,957

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 469 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eloi?
We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Eloi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Eloi have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Eloi in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eloi.
Where is Eloi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eloi is densest in France — about 1 in 6.9 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is Eloi compared with other names?
In Brazil, Eloi is the 967th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Eloi a male or female name?
Eloi 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 Eloi mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latin Eligius, from eligere 'to choose'.
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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, “Eloi” — the 967th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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