Elise

What Elise means

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

Editor’s note Down from #174 in 2015 to #223 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elise?

US: Falling: down from #174 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #191 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 2,121 girls got the name (#152 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,176 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,963 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,278 baby girls 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.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (5.44 per 1,000 girls), DC (2.97 per 1,000 girls), HI (2.33 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Elise is #223 in the US and #335 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Elise were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Eloise4,251 US · 546 E&W
• Alice3,547 US · 825 E&W
• Ellis415 US · 16 E&W
• Elouise344 US · 47 E&W
• Elyse286 US · 15 E&W
• Elsa216 US · 54 E&W
• Elsy78 US
• Alize55 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 Elise

Girls

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Eve#519Editor’s note Down from #470 in 2015 to #519 in 2025 in the US
• Leah#58Editor’s note Down from #36 in 2015 to #58 in 2025 in the US
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies
• Daniella#468Form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*

For a brother

• Jeremiah#88“Yahweh exalt”^*
• Abram#742“father + high, exalted”^*
• Eli#104“ascent”^*
• Emmanuel#179Editor’s note Down from #151 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Abraham#209“father of + multitude of”^*
• Nehemiah#429“consolation of Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Elise’s. Rank is US 2025.