# Elis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elis/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 606 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 286 / 320 (53% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,417, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 12,505 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,516 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,173 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,370 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,164 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,535 |
| 2017 | 12 | 8,943 |
| 2018 | 17 | 6,885 |
| 2019 | 18 | 6,502 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,667 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,771 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6,052 |
| 2023 | 20 | 6,026 |
| 2024 | 16 | 7,023 |
| 2025 | 16 | 6,919 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 12,596 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9,976 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,179 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,122 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5,811 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,133 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,811 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,604 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,189 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,159 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,184 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,945 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,014 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5,989 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,326 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,887 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2,042 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,325 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,689 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 53 | 631 |
| 2012 | 50 | 671 |
| 2013 | 72 | 514 |
| 2014 | 72 | 527 |
| 2015 | 73 | 526 |
| 2016 | 86 | 470 |
| 2017 | 109 | 401 |
| 2018 | 118 | 375 |
| 2019 | 165 | 296 |
| 2020 | 133 | 338 |
| 2021 | 147 | 317 |
| 2022 | 146 | 308 |
| 2023 | 163 | 281 |
| 2024 | 161 | 280 |
| 2025 | 119 | 352 |

## People named Elis

- Elis Regina, Brazilian singer of popular and jazz music (1945–1982)
- Elis Bakaj, Albanian association football player
- Elis Wiklund, cross-country skier
- Elis Manolova, Azerbaijani wrestler
- Elis Guri, Albanian-Bulgarian Olympic wrestler
- Elis Strömgren, Danish astronomer (1870-1947)
- Ole Torvalds, Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland (1916-1995)
- Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (1914-1960)
- Aake Kalliala, Finnish actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.