Ellyse
Ellyse was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,509 among girls’ names; 795 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ellyse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ellyse?
#8,509 among girls’ names, 2025
Ellyse fell from #5,711 in 2015 to #8,509 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 7.5 per million.
32 babies in 2003, the peak
Ellyse peaked in 2003, when 32 girls were given it, #4,130 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,509 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,550 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,495 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,681 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,626 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,713 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,304 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,769 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,112 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,239 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,711 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,271 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,455 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,682 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,962 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,518 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,761 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,615 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,721 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,130 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,648 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,524 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,130 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,515 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,478 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,903 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,993 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,872 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,415 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,863 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,669 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,767 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,241 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,798 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,691 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,273 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,230 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,614 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,649 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,291 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,606 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,589 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,751 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ellyse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ellyse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ellyse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ellyse, and how old are they?
An estimated 785 Americans named Ellyse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 689 people named Ellyse (689 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 Ellyse?
Ellyse is a less common spelling of Elise: SSA has recorded 795 Ellyse and 75,252 Elise since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 176,342 babies since 1880, Ellyse is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,944 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Ellyse
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 Ellyse and names like it
- Compare Ellyse and EliseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEllyse peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ellyse since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Ellyse.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ellyse alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.