Eloy

Where Eloy comes from

Eloy 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1842
    Eloy Alfaro born
    president of Ecuador (1897-1901) /
  2. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,217 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1946
    Peak, #700
    86 babies named Eloy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1989
    Eloy Room born
    Curaçaoan association football player
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,783.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Eloy Alfaro · president of Ecuador (1897-1901) /, 1842–1912
  • Eloy Room · Curaçaoan association football player, born 1989
  • Eloy Olaya · Spanish footballer, born 1964
  • Eloy Campos · Peruvian footballer, born 1942
  • Eloy Teruel · Spanish racing cyclist, born 1982

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.