Alois

Where Alois comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Alois.

Alois through the years
  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, with 10 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1891
    Peak, #524
    12 babies named Alois, its best rank.
  5. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

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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.