Meaning of the nameEloy

Eloy is a spelling of the name Elói, which means “from the Latin Eligius, derived from eligo, 'to choose'”.

Meaning

“from the Latin Eligius, derived from eligo, 'to choose'”

Meaning of the name Elói, of which Eloy is a spelling.

People (2022): 2,340
Rank in Brazil: #4,596
Median age: 56 years
2010 Census: 2,153; people

Eloy in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Eloy, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (407 people).

248 women 2,092 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Eloy is most common

States with the highest share of people named Eloy in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Rio Grande do Sul 0.003%
Santa Catarina 0.002%
Paraná 0.002%
Pará 0.002%
Rio de Janeiro 0.001%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	531	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	324	0.003%
Rio de Janeiro	225	0.001%
Paraná	204	0.002%
Minas Gerais	143	0.001%
Santa Catarina	143	0.002%
Pará	123	0.002%
Bahia	89	0.001%
Amazonas	70	0.002%
Espírito Santo	63	0.002%
Pernambuco	49	0.001%
Maranhão	49	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	42	0.002%
Mato Grosso	41	0.001%
Goiás	34	0.001%
Ceará	33	0.000%
Distrito Federal	33	0.001%
Alagoas	24	0.001%
Roraima	23	0.004%
Rondônia	19	0.001%
Paraíba	15	0.000%
Sergipe	15	0.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Eloy

It ends in Y, like the Spanish form Eloy, which Wiktionary also derives from French.

About the name Elói

Wiktionary lists Elói as a male name taken from the French Éloi, from the medieval Latin Eligius, and gives it as a divergent form of Elígio. Behind the Name explains Eligius as a Late Latin name derived from eligo, 'to choose', and lists Eloy among the Spanish forms. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 14,572 people named Elói, 2,314 of them women. Proportionally, the name is most common in Rio Grande do Sul, and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Eloy, Heloi and Heloy as spelling variants of Eloi.

Other spellings of Elói

Spelling	People (2022)
Elói	14,572
Eloy	2,340

Sources

Wiktionary: Elói · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Eligius · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Eloy · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Eloi · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Eloy

What does the name Eloy mean?

Eloy means “from the Latin Eligius, derived from eligo, 'to choose'”, according to Behind the Name. This is the meaning of the name Elói, of which Eloy is a spelling.

How many people are named Eloy in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,340 people with the first name Eloy, which ranks it number 4,596 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Eloy a boy's or a girl's name?

Eloy is used by both men and women: in the 2022 Census, 248 women and 2,092 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Eloy?

Eloy is a name of French and Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Eloy most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.003% of the state's population is named Eloy (324 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Eloy?

Elói. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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