Ellise
Ellise was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,633 among girls’ names; 776 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellise?
#9,633 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellise fell from #5,338 in 2015 to #9,633 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.2 per million.
37 babies in 2004, the peak
Ellise peaked in 2004, when 37 girls were given it, #3,840 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,633 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,592 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,624 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,165 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,407 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,664 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,240 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,268 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,351 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,492 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,338 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,413 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,537 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,747 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,601 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,002 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,142 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,328 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,323 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,428 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,512 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,840 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,280 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,304 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,066 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,832 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,596 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,529 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,276 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,346 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,357 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,787 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,044 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,171 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,739 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,577 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,105 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,621 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,052 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,279 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,148 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,887 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,080 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,603 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,804 | 2.7 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,576 | 4.9 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,040 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellise, and how old are they?
An estimated 753 Americans named Ellise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 776 people named Ellise (763 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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).
How common is the spelling Ellise?
Ellise is a less common spelling of Elise: SSA has recorded 776 Ellise and 75,252 Elise since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 427,312 babies since 1880, Ellise is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 9,312 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Ellise
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 Ellise and names like it
- Compare Ellise and EliseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEllise peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellise since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Ellise.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ellise alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.