Eloise

What Eloise means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Eloise yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eloise?

US: Rising: up from #254 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #101 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 4,251 girls got the name (#49 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 378 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 464 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 373 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (13.35 per 1,000 girls), AK (10.28 per 1,000 girls), NH (9.48 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Eloise is #49 in the US and #83 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9% of US babies named Eloise were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elise1,367 US · 129 E&W
• Ellis415 US · 16 E&W
• Elouise344 US · 47 E&W
• Elyse286 US · 15 E&W
• Elloise45 US
• Alise29 US · 4 E&W
• Elis16 US · 9 E&W
• Ellouise19 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Eloise

Girls

• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Estelle#573“star”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Josephine#53Feminine form of Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Esme#298Diminutive of Esmeralda, meaning “emerald”^*

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Noel#478French, meaning “birthday of the Lord”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Eloise’s. Rank is US 2025.