Aloys
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Louis, from Germanic Hludwig, 'famous warrior'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alɔjuːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aloys is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burundi than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 1.3K
- NLNetherlands1 in 29K
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.
- Burundi (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French form of Louis, from Germanic Hludwig, 'famous warrior'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aloys 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.
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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aloys is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Germanic form meaning « glorious fighter ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme médiévale de Louis, d’origine germanique, signifiant « glorieux vainqueur ».
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrachb. 1669ATAustrian politician and diplomat (1669-1742)
- Aloys Hirtb. 1759DEGerman art historian
- Karl Aloys zu Fürstenbergb. 1760CZHabsburg military commander, French Revolutionary Wars
- Aloys Schmittb. 1788DEGerman composer, pianist and music teacher (1788-1866)
- Aloys Sprengerb. 1813ATAustrian orientalist (1813–1893)
- Prince Aloys Franz de Paula Mariab. 1846ATLiechtenstein prince (1846-1920)
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtensteinb. 1906LInot in their usual namePrince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
- Prince Karl Alfred of Liechtensteinb. 1910ATnot in their usual namePrince of Liechtenstein (1910-1985)
- Aloys Fleischmannb. 1910IEIrish composer (1910–1992)
- Chen Kunb. 1976CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #1,026 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 562 | #1,514 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 128 | #6,964 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 41 | #9,527 |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #14 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 2 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2023 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Aloys a male or female name?
- Aloys 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 Aloys mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Louis, from Germanic Hludwig, 'famous warrior'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Aloys?
- In the etymology graph, Luis, Luiz and Lois are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Aloys?
- A machine transcription gives /alɔjuːs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Aloys have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Aloys in Burundi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aloys?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 603 people named Aloys, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aloysThe 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, “Aloys”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.