Elis

What Elis means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Elis yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #352 vs #7,194 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elis?

US: Falling: down from #5746 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #526 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1911, when 5 boys got the name (#1740 that year). First in the US records in 1911.

How common

• About 1 in 155,280 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,285 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Elis is #7194 in the US and #352 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 59.3% of US babies named Elis were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ellis1,417 US · 582 E&W
• Alois8 US · 4 E&W
• Eloise5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Elis

Boys

• Lorenzo#117Editor’s note Up from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 560 US boys in the 2025 records
• Harvey#251“iron + blazing”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Rory#199“red-haired king”^*

For a sister

• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Rose#114Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1917, with 9,783 babies; 2,386 in 2025
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Anastasia#163“resurrection”^*
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elis’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.