Entry № 2914 · French origin

Eloise Eloise — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-oh-eez /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Healthy, wide, famous warrior"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "healthy, wide, famous warrior".

Eloise comes from the Old French Heloise, itself from the Germanic Helewidis — composed of heil (healthy, hale) and wid (wide).

Today Eloise sits in the U.S. top 75 and is climbing fast.

Healthy, wide, famous warrior — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Eloise
Transliteration
Eloise
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛl.oʊ.iːz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eloise stands.

Eloise does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eloises before her.

Real people
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
French abbess, philosopher, and writer.
1100 – 1163
Eloise Mumford
American actress.
born 1986
In fiction
Eloise
Heroine of Kay Thompson's children's books set at the Plaza Hotel.
1955 onward

Names connected to Eloise.

The number behind Eloise.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eloise reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.