Eloá
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Meaning
“Brazilian feminine name taken from Eloah, a Hebrew word for God (per Portuguese Wiktionary; the references carry no fuller history)”
The story
Eloá is a Brazilian name taken from Eloah, a Hebrew word for God, and the references will tell you honestly that this is nearly all the paperwork it has: no entry in the big name dictionaries, a derivation recorded by the Portuguese Wiktionary, and a history that is mostly happening right now. The census tells the real story. Brazil counted 1,256 Eloás born in the 1990s, then 7,579 in the 2000s, then 51,065 in the 2010s, and 57,128 in the first years of this decade, for 121,392 in all and a median age of four. Nearly half of Brazil's recorded Eloás were born since 2020. The name rhymes with the country's taste for soft, open, vowel-rich girls' names, and it carries a word for the divine at its core. Some classics take a thousand years to happen; this one is happening now, in real time, in Portuguese.
How popular is Eloá around the world?
Eloá does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. At the 2022 census, 121,392 people in Brazil were named Eloá, the 267th most common name, with a median age of 4.
Eloá is on the official records of Brazil, France, Argentina, England and Wales and Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
Eloá does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
1 in 1,700
At the 2022 census, 121,392 people in Brazil were named Eloá, the 267th most common name, with a median age of 4.
Among people named Eloá living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 57,128 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
France
1 in 26,000
In France, about 25 girls named Eloá were born in 2025, ranked 1,395th among girls that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Argentina
1 in 30,000
In Argentina, 22 newborns were given the name Eloá in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
England and Wales
1 in 150,000
In England and Wales, 4 girls named Eloá were born in 2025, ranked 4,867th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Spain
1 in 660,000
In Spain, 68 residents are named Eloá, ranked 10,635th among women, with a mean age of 10.1 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Montevideo City
last on record 2001
Eloá is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
Not on the record in Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
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The Eloá deep dive
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