girls:
65k births since 1880
#493 (91st percentile)
boys:
111 births since 1919
#4475 (2nd percentile)
overall:
65.1k births since 1880
#915 (88th percentile)
The name Eloise is the #915 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,095 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #493 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 64,984 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,475 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 111 births since 1919.
Eloise has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1919 for boys).
The name Eloise has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Eloise reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 91.9% percentile (ranked #78) with 1,667 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,667 births per million (ranked 91.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eloise is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #78 (91.9% percentile) with 1,667 births per million.
For boys, Eloise reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #515) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eloise".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Eloise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.4% confident that Eloise is pronounced as EH-loh-eez, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-loh-EEZ, at 25.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 L OW0 IY0 Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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