Eloy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Eligio; no procede del nombre de Dios en siriaco
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eloi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eloy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 32nd most common given name.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.1K
- ESSpain1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Eloy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
18,732 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variante de Eligio; no procede del nombre de Dios en siriaco. Latín/Francés Eloi, port. Elói
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Eloy is read(measured from records)
Eloy is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish73%
- English14%
Spanish, "the chosen one"
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Spanish; to choose
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- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Eloy in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eloy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #307 | 18,732 | 1 in 2.7K | 19K | Eloy | 165 |
| PE Peru | #355 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Eloy | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,572as Eloi | 1 in 15K | 19K | Eloy | 108 |
| US United States | — | 9,980 | 1 in 33K | 9.9K | Eloy | 323 |
| BO Bolivia | #32 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Eloy | 35 |
| VE Venezuela | #293 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Eloy | 51 |
| EC Ecuador | #258 | 4,990 | 1 in 3.4K | 5K | Eloy | 37 |
18,732 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Eloy 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.
From Latin Eligius ‘chosen’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
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 73 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19K | #360 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 19K | #157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.9K | #2,472 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5K | #287 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.2K | #5,703 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.1K | #4,596 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 248 | #4,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 74 | #2,472 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Eloy mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Eligio; no procede del nombre de Dios en siriaco.
- How do you pronounce Eloy?
- A machine transcription gives /eloi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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 are other forms of the name Eloy?
- In the etymology graph, Eligio, Eloi and Eligiusz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Eloy have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Eloy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eloy.
- How common is the name Eloy?
- In Spain, the national register counted 18,732 people named Eloy, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Eloy compared with other names?
- In Spain, Eloy is the 307th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eloy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eloyThe 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, “Eloy” — the 307th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.