Lois

What Lois means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1927, with 10,505 babies; 124 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lois?

US: Rising: up from #1872 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #152 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1929, when 10,295 girls got the name (#17 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 12,962 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,911 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,193 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 TN (0.19 per 1,000 girls), NC (0.17 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.17 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lois is #1666 in the US and #460 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 Lois 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

• Louise579 US · 44 E&W
• Liz178 US · 18 E&W
• Lis11 US
• Luis7 US
• Louis6 US
• Lys5 US
• Lais5 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 Lois

Girls

• Dorothy#421Editor’s note Up from #714 in 2015 to #421 in 2025 in the US
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Theodora#725“God s Gift”^*
• Thea#353“goddess”^*
• Cleo#577Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,743 in 2015, #577 in 2025
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*

For a brother

• Ira#819“watchful”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Evander#698“good man”^*
• Thaddeus#797Editor’s note Down from #703 in 2015 to #797 in 2025 in the US
• Amos#730“to carry; a burden”^*

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