Éloi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/elwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Éloi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).
- FRFrance≈1 in 869K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 10K
- BRBrazil1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
14,572 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eloi in FR France, ES Spain, US United States and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Medieval LatinEligius(measured from records)
- Latinēligere“to pick“to pick, to choose from”(measured from records)
From Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Éloi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 14,572 | 1 in 15K | 19K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 4,904 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Eloi | 43 |
| US United States | 305 | 1 in 1.1M | 454 | Eloi | 62 |
| FR France | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 869K | 9.9K | Eloi | 249 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Eloi | 2 |
| AL Albania | 30 | 1 in 102K | 16 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 15 | 1 in 371K | 42 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
14,572 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eligiusb. 588FRnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic bishop and saint
- Éloi Labarreb. 1764FRFrench architect
- Eloi Charlemagne Taupinb. 1767FRFrench military officer (1767-1814)
- Nicolas-Éloi Lemaireb. 1767FRFrench philologist (1767-1832)
- Eloi-Firmin Feronb. 1802FRFrench painter (1802-1876)
- Eloi Meulenbergb. 1912BEBelgian cyclist (1912–1989)
- Eloi Tassinb. 1912FRroad bicycle racer (1912–1977)
- Éloi Recoingb. 1955FRFrench playwright, puppeteer, theatre director, translator and poet
- Rhéal Fortinb. 1970CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Éloi PainchaudCAcomposer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1K | #408 |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Éloi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Éloi?
- A machine transcription gives /elwa/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Éloi?
- In the etymology graph, Eloy, Eligio and Eligiusz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Éloi a male or female name?
- Éloi 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.
- In which country does Éloi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Éloi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Éloi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Éloi is densest in Spain — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Éloi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,572 people named Éloi in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Éloi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9loiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Éloi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.