as a First Name
New Testament name of unknown origin, borne by the grandmother of the Timothy to whom St Paul wrote two epistles (see 2 Timothy 1:5). Both Timothy and his mother Eunice bore common Greek names, but Lois remains unexplained. In popular fiction the name is borne by Lois Lane, the reporter girlfriend of Superman.
| 236th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 257,963
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 316,430
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Lois per capita
- 1929
- marked the height of its popularity
99.89%
0.11%
87%
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55+
12%
30-54
30-54
0.40%
13-29
13-29
0.29%
0-12
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