Elise Girl
How popular is Elise?
#223 girl name in 2025
1,367 baby girls were named Elise in the US in 2025, making it the 223rd most popular girl name.
Elise popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #223 for girls (▲ 28 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,367 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-26% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #174 in 2015, #212 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2012 (2,121 girls) |
| Highest rank | #152 in 2012 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elise counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elise family of names ranked #197 for girls in 2025 (#194 the year before), with 1,749 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elise | 1,367 | 78% |
| Elyse | 286 | 16% |
| Elize | 13 | 1% |
| Elis | 16 | 1% |
| Ellise | 10 | 1% |
| Eliz | 15 | 1% |
| Elisse | 14 | 1% |
| Ellyse | 12 | 1% |
| Elysse | 10 | 1% |
| Elys | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Elise is most popular
Babies named Elise per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 1.9 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Maine: 1.8 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Idaho: 1.6 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- Nebraska: 1.6 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- North Dakota: 1.5 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Elise by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 293 | #326 |
| 1890s | 465 | #377 |
| 1900s | 595 | #381 |
| 1910s | 1,620 | #384 |
| 1920s | 1,809 | #469 |
| 1930s | 1,229 | #545 |
| 1940s | 1,369 | #615 |
| 1950s | 3,511 | #435 |
| 1960s | 3,688 | #470 |
| 1970s | 2,716 | #557 |
| 1980s | 7,753 | #235 |
| 1990s | 9,712 | #265 |
| 2000s | 14,576 | #210 |
| 2010s | 18,245 | #152 |
| 2020s | 7,605 | #212 |
Girl names about as popular as Elise
Questions
- Is Elise a boy or girl name?
- Elise is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elise were girls.
- How popular is the name Elise?
- 1,367 baby girls were named Elise in the US in 2025, making it the 223rd most popular girl name.
- When was Elise most popular?
- Elise peaked in 2012, when 2,121 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #152 in 2012.
- How many people are named Elise?
- 75,252 babies have been named Elise in the US since 1880. We estimate about 67,308 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Elise most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elise was most common in District of Columbia, at 1.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.