Eloise at a glance
- Meaning
- “healthy, wide”
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Germanic
- Pronunciation
- EL-oh-eez
- Nicknames
- Ellie, Lou
- Other forms
- Héloïse, Eloisa, Heloise
Where the name Eloise comes from
Eloise comes from the French Héloïse, which probably goes back to a Germanic name made from words for healthy and wide. Héloïse was a clever 12th-century French woman whose love letters to the scholar Abelard are still famous. In the US, the Eloise children’s books about a girl living in a New York hotel made the name well known.