Elis — #6986 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Elis

The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Elis between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elis currently holds the #6986 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Elis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 275 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elis performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Elis shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Elis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 304 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.