# Elise (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/elise/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈiːliːs/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Elysse |
| US babies named this | 75,252 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 66 / 75,186 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9,629, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.

## 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 | 1,934 | 162 |
| 2012 | 2,121 | 152 |
| 2013 | 2,017 | 159 |
| 2014 | 1,967 | 168 |
| 2015 | 1,845 | 174 |
| 2016 | 1,915 | 168 |
| 2017 | 1,716 | 177 |
| 2018 | 1,670 | 176 |
| 2019 | 1,472 | 207 |
| 2020 | 1,364 | 212 |
| 2021 | 1,254 | 242 |
| 2022 | 1,204 | 260 |
| 2023 | 1,146 | 273 |
| 2024 | 1,270 | 251 |
| 2025 | 1,367 | 223 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 | 4,157 |
| 1923 | 5 | 4,411 |
| 1926 | 5 | 4,396 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,141 |
| 1985 | 9 | 4,433 |
| 1988 | 7 | 5,959 |
| 1989 | 10 | 4,929 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,036 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12,829 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,616 |
| 2017 | 5 | 12,842 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 392 | 143 |
| 2012 | 391 | 146 |
| 2013 | 303 | 173 |
| 2014 | 355 | 157 |
| 2015 | 289 | 191 |
| 2016 | 310 | 177 |
| 2017 | 275 | 193 |
| 2018 | 235 | 216 |
| 2019 | 194 | 251 |
| 2020 | 185 | 255 |
| 2021 | 157 | 299 |
| 2022 | 122 | 351 |
| 2023 | 119 | 356 |
| 2024 | 136 | 320 |
| 2025 | 129 | 335 |

## People named Elise

- Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
- Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
- Elise Richter, Austrian philologist, scholar of Romance languages, and university teacher, Holocaust vict
- Elise Neal, American actress
- Élise Bussaglia, French association football player
- Elise Ringen, biathlete
- Elise Kellond-Knight, Australian soccer player
- Elise Bauman, Canadian actress
- Elise Rechichi, Australian sailor
- Elise Christie, British short-track speed skater
- Jennifer Elise Cox, American actress
- Elise Vanderelst, Belgian athletics competitor

## 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.