Elyse

What Elyse means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #918 vs #1,892 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Elyse?

US: Falling: down from #653 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1204 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1987, when 803 girls got the name (#305 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 5,620 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,885 baby girls in England and Wales 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 IN (0.39 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.35 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.33 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Elyse is #918 in the US and #1892 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 Elyse were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Eloise4,251 US · 546 E&W
• Elise1,367 US · 129 E&W
• Elsa216 US · 54 E&W
• Alys27 US · 81 E&W
• Elsy78 US
• Alyse54 US
• Elsi17 US · 34 E&W
• Alyce38 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 Elyse

Girls

• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Estelle#573“star”^*
• Camille#240Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #240 in 2025

For a brother

• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Noel#478French, meaning “birthday of the Lord”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US

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