Elison
Elison was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,985 among boys’ names; 109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elison?
#9,985 among boys’ names, 2025
Elison rose from #12,608 in 2015 to #9,985 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.1 per million.
11 babies in 2015, the peak
Elison peaked in 2015, when 11 babies were given it (5 boys, #12,608 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #9,985 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,313 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,223 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,021 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,116 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,706 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #9,994 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,755 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,025 | 5 | #12,608 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,304 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #9,958 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,412 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #11,884 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #8,934 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,895 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,820 |
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 Elison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 109 Americans recorded as Elison, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Elison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elison, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Elison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Elison (98 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 80 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,442 babies since 1880, Elison is the second most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 27 babies (26%), again the second most given.
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 Elison
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 Elison and names like it
- Compare Elison and ElsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElison peaked in 2015.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Elison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.