Eloy

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 5 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◐

Eloy is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name102K records spelled Eloy8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Spain

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Eĺoy, Elôy, Elöy

• a separate given name16K records spelled Eloy3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Bolivia

  Also written Elóy, Éloy

• a separate given name2.5K records spelled Eloy2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Paraguay

  Also written E̶l̶o̶y̶

• Lao given name710 records spelled Eloy7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Eloi, เอลอย, Elöi, Ëlöy

52 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●

Eloy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Spanish, "the chosen one"

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• In English, Spanish; to choose

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• From Latin Eligius ‘chosen’.

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• Spanish: from the Latin name Eligius , a derivative of eligere to choose, select. St Eligius (588–660) was a bishop of Noyon who evangelized the districts around Antwerp, Ghent, and Courtrai. Variant: Eligio. Cognates: French, Portuguese: Eloi. Italian: Eligio .

  as a word

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 125 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Eloy Alfarob. 1842ECpresident of Ecuador (1897-1901) / (1906-1914)
• Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyob. 1934ESSpanish politician (1934–2012)
• Eloy de la Iglesiab. 1944ESSpanish film director (1944–2006)
• Eloy Inosb. 1949USNorthern Mariana Islands politician (1949-2015)
• Eloy Casadosb. 1949USAmerican actor (1949-2016)
• Eloy Olayab. 1964ESSpanish footballer
• Eloy Azorínb. 1977ESSpanish actor
• Eloy Teruelb. 1982ESSpanish racing cyclist
• Eloy Roomb. 1989NLCuraçaoan association football player
• Eloy Jiménezb. 1996DODominican professional baseball outfielder

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 760 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eloy?

We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Eloy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Eloy have the most bearers?

Eloy is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled eloy.

Where is Eloy most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eloy is densest in Spain — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Eloy compared with other names?

In Argentina, Eloy is the 602nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Eloy a male or female name?

Eloy 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 Eloy mean?

Recorded meaning: Variante de Eligio; no procede del nombre de Dios en siriaco.