Eloí
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Eloí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).
- ESSpain1 in 10K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 15K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 19K
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
- 109 (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 BR Brazil, FR France, ES Spain and 3 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)
- FrenchÉloi(measured from records)
- Medieval LatinEligius(measured from records)
- Latinēligere“to pick“to pick, to choose from”(measured from records)
From French Éloi, from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eloí 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.
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. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,464 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eloí mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Éloi, 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 and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
- Is Eloí a male or female name?
- Eloí 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 Eloí have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Eloí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eloi.
- Where is Eloí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eloí 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 Eloí?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,572 people named Eloí in 2022, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Eloí compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Eloí is the 847th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elo%C3%ADThe 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, “Eloí” — the 847th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.