Alois

Boys' name · Early 20th-century

Living in the US: ~440 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #8,910 among boys
Births in 2025: 8 2,711 since 1880
Typical age: 74 years, median

Alois popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1918 is the peak year for Alois, with 111 births. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. It reaches the top 1,000 in 50 years of the record.

The 2025 position is #8,910, on 8 births. Over ten years the count has risen 60%. Year on year the rank improved by 2028.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Alois?

About 440 people named Alois are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 2,711 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Alois?

The typical living Alois is 74 years old. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Alois a early 20th-century name.

Your Alois

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Alois in England and Wales

ONS recorded 4 births named Alois in 2025, ranking it #4,275.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Notable people named Alois

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Alois Alzheimer	German psychiatrist and neuropathologist	1864–1915	64
Alois Hitler	Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler	1837–1903	58
Alois Senefelder	German actor and inventor of lithography	1771–1834	40
Alois Jirásek	Czech writer	1851–1930	38
Alois Brunner	Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator	1912–2001	34
Alois Hába	Czech music educator and composer	1893–1973	30
Alois Mock	Austrian politician	1934–2017	26
Alois Riegl	Austrian art historian	1858–1905	24

Photo credits (7)

Alois Alzheimer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Hitler — Reinegger, Josef [photographer] (born 1833), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Senefelder — Unidentified engraver, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Jirásek — Agence Rol, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Hába — n/a ?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Mock — Schweinsohr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alois Riegl — The original uploader was Javits2000 at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Get this data

Every number on this page is available as JSON: /api/name/alois.json. Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0).