Entry № 4191 · Old Germanic origin

Héloïse Héloïse — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-oh-eez /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Healthy, wide (Abelard's beloved)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "healthy, wide (abelard's beloved)".

Héloïse is the medieval French form of the Old Germanic Helewidis. Héloïse d'Argenteuil (c. 1100-1164) was the brilliant French scholar and abbess — her tragic love affair with the philosopher Peter Abelard produced one of the most famous correspondences in Western literature.

Healthy, wide (Abelard's beloved) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Héloïse stands.

Héloïse 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.

Héloïses before her.

Real people
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
French scholar and abbess.
c. 1100 – 1164
In fiction
Héloïse
Heroine of Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Sciamma, 2019

Names connected to Héloïse.

The number behind Héloïse.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Héloïse reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.