Eloise is a moderately popular girls' name in England & Wales, ranking #105 in 1999 with 469 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2004 with 618 births ranking #83. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 33.6%. In 1999, approximately 1 in every 601 girls born was named Eloise. RISING Recent data shows the name is currently rising.
Eloise is a refined classic with a clearer etymology than the earlier draft suggested. Behind the Name traces it back to Old French Heloise and probably to the Germanic name Helewidis, built from elements meaning 'healthy' and 'wide'.
The name is strongly associated with the medieval French scholar Heloise and later revived in English-speaking use as Eloise. That gives it both intellectual history and a strong classical structure.