The nameHéloïse

Meaning

Héloïse comes from the Germanic Helewidis, from heil, "healthy", and wid, "wide".

Origin

French, from Germanic.

History

Héloïse and Abelard exchanged some of the most famous love letters of the Middle Ages. In the United States Heloise reached 1164th place in 1913. In England and Wales it was 1296th in 1996.

Héloïse in other languages

Héloïse is a French form of Eloise. It is Eloisa in Italian and Eloísa in Spanish and Portuguese. Héloïse, the abbess loved by Abelard, made the name famous.

Popularity of the name Héloïse

Héloïse in the United States

Héloïse was most popular in the United States in the 1910s, with 177 births over the decade, 26% of all recorded babies named Héloïse. Its rise began around 1900, and it peaked in 1915. Half of all babies named Héloïse in the United States were born before 1927, so it is mostly a great-grandparents' generation name.

Héloïse in France

Héloïse was most popular in France in the 2010s, with 7,495 births over the decade, 25% of all recorded babies named Héloïse. Half of all babies named Héloïse in France were born before 2005, so it is mostly a name of today's children and teenagers. Over the last five years on record, it has been falling: 630 births a year on average, against 783 in the five years before.

Héloïse in Belgium