Eloise is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #1990 in 2002 with 88 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2025 with 4,251 births ranking #49. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 203.4%. In 2002, approximately 1 in every 20,418 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.