Elize
Elize was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,001 among girls’ names; 455 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elize by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elize?
#8,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Elize fell from #5,521 in 2015 to #8,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 8.1 per million.
41 babies in 2016, the peak
Elize peaked in 2016, when 41 girls were given it, #3,728 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,001 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,713 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,236 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,675 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,996 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,407 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,036 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,596 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,555 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,728 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,521 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,776 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,868 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,325 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,532 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,539 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,908 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,877 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,337 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,739 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,154 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,860 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,232 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,205 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,053 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,171 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,852 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,563 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,936 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,801 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,518 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,464 | 2.9 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,952 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,435 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,622 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elize a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 455 Americans recorded as Elize, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Elize: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elize, and how old are they?
An estimated 423 Americans named Elize and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 535 people named Elize (460 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Elize 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,295 babies since 1880, Elize is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 2,502 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Elize
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 Elize and names like it
- Compare Elize and ElizaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sElize peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elize since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Elize.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elize alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.