Highest ever

Eloise

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#49
4,251 girls
2015
#254
rank
1950
#341
rank

Eloise: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 4,251 in 2025. Its best rank was #49 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.8% of babies named Eloise in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#49 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
4,256
Since 1880
72,815
Years on record
146

Babies named Eloise, every year since 1880

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Girls

Eloise: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 4,251 girls in 2025. Peak: #49 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 4,251 (2025).

About the name Eloise

In 2025, 4,251 US girls were named Eloise, making it the 49th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #64 in 2024. That is 808 more than the 3,443 girls named Eloise in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #49, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,251. For comparison, it was #254 in 2015 and #341 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Eloise in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 72,815 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 18,045 babies named Eloise.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,882 US girls were named Eloise; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 4,251. In 2025 that was about 1 in 378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Eloise ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #17 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 47 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Elouise (11,403 babies since 1880), Eloisa (7,040 babies since 1880), Elois (2,652 babies since 1880) and Elise (75,252 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ellouise and Heloise are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Heloise and Louise.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Ellouise (1,029), Heloise (705).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

Eloise is listed as a nickname for Heloise.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Eloise by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Hampshire36#17#235
Vermont13#18#92
Alaska17#19—
Louisiana82#20#237
Maine26#22#169
Minnesota112#22#88
Kansas63#25#259
Indiana123#27#179
Wisconsin99#27#137
Nebraska40#27#184
Ohio200#33#215
Massachusetts119#34#120
Michigan150#34#165
Missouri105#35#250
Alabama74#36#507
Connecticut63#36#158
District of Columbia15#36#101
South Carolina80#36#242
Oregon60#37#120
Washington112#40#161
Colorado95#40#141
Tennessee116#41#282
Iowa52#41#211
Rhode Island16#42#171
North Carolina173#44#315
Illinois160#44#193
Pennsylvania168#47#259
North Dakota15#49#164
Wyoming7#49—
Montana15#51#149
Utah68#51#264
South Dakota15#52—
Virginia108#53#270
Idaho31#54#129
New York219#60#272
Florida240#62#557
Georgia116#69#567
Maryland54#70#214
Hawaii10#71#169
Arizona77#72#467
Kentucky52#72#401
New Jersey96#76#392
Delaware10#76—
Oklahoma42#77#485
California338#86#327
Texas278#100#582
West Virginia15#100—
Arkansas26#108—
Nevada20#112#379
Mississippi20#116—
New Mexico10#149—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20254,251#495#12,575
20243,443#64——
20232,924#81——
20222,905#86——
20212,547#109——
20201,970#137——
20191,902#149——
20181,743#167——
20171,630#190——
20161,567#208——
20151,265#254——
20141,081#302——
2013955#337——
2012860#363——
2011679#449——
2010553#529——
2009297#913——
2008265#999——
2007191#1,283——
2006179#1,309——
2005165#1,330——
2004148#1,406——
2003103#1,818——
200288#1,990——
200178#2,117——
200059#2,550——
199954#2,618——
199853#2,582——
199736#3,245——
199629#3,754——
199539#2,988——
199444#2,767——
199325#4,136——
199227#3,899——
199124#4,241——
199028#3,739——
198929#3,503——
198828#3,418——
198730#3,121——
198622#3,793——
198529#3,107——
198424#3,444——
198334#2,608——
198241#2,383——
198148#2,128——
198029#3,019——
197939#2,399——
197827#2,960——
197722#3,407——
197637#2,267——
197538#2,209——
197429#2,570——
197355#1,655——
197250#1,753——
197163#1,551——
197069#1,466——
196959#1,550——
196884#1,181——
196785#1,152——
1966103#1,017——
1965138#855——
1964126#942——
1963163#812——
1962183#769——
1961177#789——
1960187#748——
1959218#678——
1958232#649——
1957310#544——
1956348#503——
1955331#508——
1954355#469——
1953438#408——
1952432#400——
1951488#365——
1950524#341——
1949483#359——
1948512#343——
1947580#327——
1946608#296——
1945546#292——
1944597#281——
1943715#259——
1942746#250——
1941584#266——
1940512#277——
1939531#2696#3,222
1938608#256——
1937636#2505#3,687
1936611#2505#3,702
1935729#2307#3,047
1934719#2359#2,617
1933819#2105#3,810
1932867#2087#3,170
1931926#19710#2,529
19301,023#189——
19291,013#1948#3,062
19281,082#1906#3,834
19271,162#18010#2,765
19261,208#1756#3,842
19251,212#180——
19241,212#1856#4,013
19231,193#181——
19221,222#1795#4,497
19211,379#164——
19201,239#1789#3,024
19191,030#1887#3,518
19181,063#189——
1917964#191——
1916953#187——
1915798#207——
1914663#198——
1913529#202——
1912474#202——
1911324#219——
1910273#236——
1909243#230——
1908201#239——
1907196#240——
1906176#244——
1905151#267——
1904120#295——
1903134#264——
1902124#281——
190188#321——
1900107#328——
189992#312——
189891#328——
189768#355——
189677#332——
189557#372——
189456#373——
189352#374——
189256#353——
189146#367——
189046#370——
188935#412——
188834#426——
188731#393——
188638#348——
188530#375——
188419#467——
188318#453——
188212#538——
188114#455——
188011#526——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).