Meaning and history
Éloïse comes from Old French Héloïse, probably derived from the Germanic Helewidis, formed from heil, "healthy, whole," and wit, "wide." Despite later associations with Greek helios, "sun," and with Louise, neither is etymologically related. The name was borne by the 12th-century French scholar Héloïse, who secretly married Peter Abelard and later became a nun and abbess after her uncle Fulbert ordered Abelard's castration. Its medieval English form Helewis disappeared after the 13th century, but Eloise was revived in the English-speaking world during the 19th century.
20062006: 179 births, rank #1,307
2007: 191 births, rank #1,283
2008: 265 births, rank #998
2009: 297 births, rank #911
2010: 553 births, rank #527
20112011: 679 births, rank #449
2012: 860 births, rank #363
2013: 955 births, rank #337
2014: 1,081 births, rank #302
2015: 1,265 births, rank #254
20162016: 1,567 births, rank #208
2017: 1,630 births, rank #190
2018: 1,743 births, rank #167
2019: 1,902 births, rank #149
2020: 1,970 births, rank #137
20212021: 2,547 births, rank #109
2022: 2,905 births, rank #86
2023: 2,924 births, rank #81
2024: 3,443 births, rank #64
20252025: 4,251 births, rank #49
Eloise has made a dramatic comeback. After first appearing in the US records in 1880, it fell to #999 by 2008, before climbing to #49 in 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 4,251.