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Heloise

“to pick, to choose from”

feminineLatin script

/hɛləʊˈiːz/ · English

Origin: Latin
4 language contexts: English Spanish Finnish +1 more
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Heloise

Heloise is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Finnish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin ēligō via Medieval Latin, French, with the stated meaning “to pick and to choose from”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Heloïse (Q140265044), Héloise (st-a53c341ef0), Héloïse (Finnish, French)

Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “to pick, to choose from”

From Medieval Latin Heloisa under influence from French Héloïse, probably from French Éloi + -se (“-ess: feminizing nouns”), from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). Sometimes alternatively derived from Proto-Germanic reconstructed as *Hailawidiz, from *hailagaz (“holy”) or *hailaz (“whole, healthful”) and *widuz (“wood, forest”). As an English name, chiefly after Peter Abelard's beloved nun Heloise. Doublet of Eloise.

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Heloise is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Heloise’s connections around the world.

7 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 18 girls (rank 6325). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Heloise

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 18; applications; Rank #6,325
Peak year: 1915; 24 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Heloise in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	5	1,932	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	8	1,318	observed
1904	6	1,659	observed
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	11	1,206	observed
1908	5	2,101	observed
1909	5	2,208	observed
1910	8	1,773	observed
1911	11	1,450	observed
1912	8	2,144	observed
1913	23	1,151	observed
1914	21	1,385	observed
1915	24	1,475	observed
1916	24	1,533	observed
1917	20	1,773	observed
1918	21	1,805	observed
1919	17	2,063	observed
1920	14	2,463	observed
1921	18	2,120	observed
1922	16	2,291	observed
1923	19	2,021	observed
1924	15	2,409	observed
1925	20	1,946	observed
1926	17	2,165	observed
1927	11	2,859	observed
1928	14	2,381	observed
1929	6	4,053	observed
1930	7	3,658	observed
1931	8	3,226	observed
1932	11	2,644	observed
1933	5	4,218	observed
1934	12	2,424	observed
1935	6	3,742	observed
1936	6	3,701	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	6	3,847	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	8	3,208	observed
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	9	3,194	observed
1943	6	4,196	observed
1944	6	4,054	observed
1945	5	4,556	observed
1946	5	4,960	observed
1947	6	4,764	observed
1948	10	3,350	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	8	3,962	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	6	4,908	observed
1953	5	5,673	observed
1954	9	3,967	observed
1955	5	5,828	observed
1956	6	5,325	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	5	6,592	observed
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	5	13,386	observed
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	6	15,491	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	6	15,242	observed
2010	5	16,992	observed
2011	8	12,153	observed
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	8	11,969	observed
2014	7	13,069	observed
2015	11	9,481	observed
2016	10	10,113	observed
2017	10	9,943	observed
2018	6	13,793	observed
2019	7	12,448	observed
2020	6	13,453	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	12	8,542	observed
2023	15	7,247	observed
2024	8	11,122	observed
2025	18	6,325	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Heloise” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
HELOISE— “famous holiness”
HELOISE, _f._ _Fr._ Teu. famous holiness, 405
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

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A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q108548432CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: EloisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates9

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Heloise

Separate records with matching spellings: Heloïse (Q140265044), Héloise (st-a53c341ef0), Héloïse (Finnish, French)

Latin origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “to pick, to choose from”

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Heloise is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Heloise’s connections around the world.

7 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 18 girls (rank 6325). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Heloise

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 18; applications; Rank #6,325
Peak year: 1915; 24 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Heloise in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	5	1,932	observed
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	8	1,318	observed
1904	6	1,659	observed
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	11	1,206	observed
1908	5	2,101	observed
1909	5	2,208	observed
1910	8	1,773	observed
1911	11	1,450	observed
1912	8	2,144	observed
1913	23	1,151	observed
1914	21	1,385	observed
1915	24	1,475	observed
1916	24	1,533	observed
1917	20	1,773	observed
1918	21	1,805	observed
1919	17	2,063	observed
1920	14	2,463	observed
1921	18	2,120	observed
1922	16	2,291	observed
1923	19	2,021	observed
1924	15	2,409	observed
1925	20	1,946	observed
1926	17	2,165	observed
1927	11	2,859	observed
1928	14	2,381	observed
1929	6	4,053	observed
1930	7	3,658	observed
1931	8	3,226	observed
1932	11	2,644	observed
1933	5	4,218	observed
1934	12	2,424	observed
1935	6	3,742	observed
1936	6	3,701	observed
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	6	3,847	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	8	3,208	observed
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	9	3,194	observed
1943	6	4,196	observed
1944	6	4,054	observed
1945	5	4,556	observed
1946	5	4,960	observed
1947	6	4,764	observed
1948	10	3,350	observed
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	8	3,962	observed
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	6	4,908	observed
1953	5	5,673	observed
1954	9	3,967	observed
1955	5	5,828	observed
1956	6	5,325	observed
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	5	6,592	observed
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	5	6,539	observed
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	5	13,386	observed
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	6	15,491	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	6	15,242	observed
2010	5	16,992	observed
2011	8	12,153	observed
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	8	11,969	observed
2014	7	13,069	observed
2015	11	9,481	observed
2016	10	10,113	observed
2017	10	9,943	observed
2018	6	13,793	observed
2019	7	12,448	observed
2020	6	13,453	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	12	8,542	observed
2023	15	7,247	observed
2024	8	11,122	observed
2025	18	6,325	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
HELOISE— “famous holiness”
HELOISE, _f._ _Fr._ Teu. famous holiness, 405
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q108548432CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: HeloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: EloisCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: EloiseCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates9

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Heloise

Latin origin

Where Heloise is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Heloise

Latin origin

Where Heloise is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page