Alois
given name · Latin script
Meaning: = Latin Aloysius, probably from Germanic Alwisi ‘all wise’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alɔʏ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alois is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 505(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.2K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 505 (inferred from the name graph)
21,188 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
= Latin Aloysius, probably from Germanic Alwisi ‘all wise’. Alois(i)a Q Feminine of ators.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Alois is read(measured from records)
Alois 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.
- German65%
- English12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alois in English.
- French9.6%
le plus classique Alan. La forme fémi- nine Aloise est depuis longtemps beau- coup plus rare, sans doute éliminée par Héloise, ce qui donne un caractére ex- centrique au titre du film de Liliane de Kermadec, Aloise (1975)
as a nameDictionnaire des prénoms
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Alois 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.
21,188 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Alois is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
= Latin Aloysius, probably from Germanic Alwisi ‘all wise’. Alois(i)a Q Feminine of ators.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Czech, a male given name, equivalent to English Aloysius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma reduzida de Aloise
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Aloisi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Alois Senefelderb. 1771CZGerman actor and inventor of lithography (1771-1834)
- Alois Hitlerb. 1837ATAustrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
- Alois Jirásekb. 1851CZCzech writer (1851–1930)
- Eduard Buchnerb. 1860DEnot in their usual nameGerman chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
- Alois Alzheimerb. 1864DEGerman psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
- Joseph Schumpeterb. 1883USnot in their usual nameAustrian political economist (1883–1950)
- Alois Brunnerb. 1912ATAustrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1912–2010)
- Hans-Adam IIb. 1945LInot in their usual namemonarch of Liechtenstein (born 1945)
- Arnold Schwarzeneggerb. 1947ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)
- Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtensteinb. 1968LIHereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
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 65 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 21K | #136 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 11K | #154 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 11K | #154 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 3.9K | #2,327 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 794 | #314 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 17 | #315 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #29 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #143 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Alois?
- A machine transcription gives /alɔʏ/ (IPA) for German.
- Where does the name Alois come from?
- = Latin Aloysius, probably from Germanic Alwisi ‘all wise’. Alois(i)a Q Feminine of ators. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Alois have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Alois, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alois.
- Where is Alois most common?
- Alois is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 505 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Alois?
- In the etymology graph, Luis, Luiz and Lois are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Alois mean?
- Recorded meaning: = Latin Aloysius, probably from Germanic Alwisi ‘all wise’.
- Is Alois a male or female name?
- Alois 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.
- How common is the name Alois?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 21,188 people named Alois, about 1 in 505 residents.
- How common is Alois compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Alois is the 256th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aloisThe 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, “Alois” — the 256th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.