Elis
Elis is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,917 among girls’ names and #7,322 among boys’, #8,500 among all names counting both); 606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elis mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Elis is “a male given name”
Variant of Elias.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elis?
#6,917 among girls’ names, 2025
Elis rose from #11,159 in 2015 to #6,917 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 10.0 per million.
35 babies in 2021, the peak
Elis peaked in 2021, when 35 babies were given it (17 girls, #6,766 among girls’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,917 | 11 | #7,322 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,019 | 15 | #5,984 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,021 | 15 | #6,009 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,048 | 15 | #5,941 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,766 | 18 | #5,179 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,662 | 11 | #7,154 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,498 | 14 | #6,184 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,881 | 16 | #5,600 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,939 | 12 | #6,807 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,532 | 14 | #6,128 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,159 | 15 | #5,807 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,365 | 6 | #11,116 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,168 | 11 | #7,174 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,509 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,498 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,634 | 7 | #9,969 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,555 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,874 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,455 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,715 | 5 | #12,589 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,042 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,938 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,624 | 6 | #9,945 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,602 | 5 | #11,198 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,067 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,768 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,110 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,848 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,240 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,535 | 5 | #8,512 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,905 | |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,050 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,169 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,140 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,551 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,850 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,443 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,559 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,923 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,828 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,393 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,531 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,855 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 7 | #3,270 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #2,891 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,816 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Elis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 606 Americans recorded as Elis, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elis, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Elis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,345 people named Elis (699 women and girls, 646 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 378 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elis rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,518 babies since 1880, Elis is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 33 babies (82%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elis and names like it
- Compare Elis and EloisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElis peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elis since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Elis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.