Alois

Where Alois comes from

Alois hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1837
    Alois Hitler born
    Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler
  2. 1864
    Alois Alzheimer born
    German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1891
    Peak, #524
    12 babies named Alois — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alois Alzheimer · German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, 1864–1915
  • Alois Hitler · Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler, 1837–1903
  • Alois Senefelder · German actor and inventor of lithography, 1771–1834
  • Alois Jirásek · Czech writer, 1851–1930
  • Alois Brunner · Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator, 1912–2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.