Aloys

Where Aloys comes from

Aloys 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. 1813
    Aloys Sprenger born
    Austrian orientalist
  2. 1896
    Debut at its peak, #900
    #900 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1937
    Aloys Jousten born
    Belgian theologian and bishop
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Aloys Sprenger · Austrian orientalist, 1813–1893
  • Aloys Jousten · Belgian theologian and bishop, 1937–2021
  • Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrach · Austrian politician and diplomat, 1669–1742
  • Aloys Schmitt · German composer, pianist and music teacher, 1788–1866
  • Aloys Wobben · German businessman, 1952–2021

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.