Elysa
Elysa was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,009 among girls’ names; 1,523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Elysa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elysa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elysa?
#8,009 among girls’ names, 2025
Elysa fell from #6,529 in 2015 to #8,009 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 8.1 per million.
50 babies in 2004, the peak
Elysa peaked in 2004, when 50 girls were given it, #3,083 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,009 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,520 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,625 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,169 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,365 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,098 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,305 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,840 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,967 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,038 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,529 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,933 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,145 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,634 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,997 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,474 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,601 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,954 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,324 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,091 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,821 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,083 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,751 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,306 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,016 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,904 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,905 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,530 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,891 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,863 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,436 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,039 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,268 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,699 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,961 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,641 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,671 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,104 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,795 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,637 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,509 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,256 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,225 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,006 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,768 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,318 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,291 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,860 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,279 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,316 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,288 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,103 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,700 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,605 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,370 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,573 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,252 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,465 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,655 | 13.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,797 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,801 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,936 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,089 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,859 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,500 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,761 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,107 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,628 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,646 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,483 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,263 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,063 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,781 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,900 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,654 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,903 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elysa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elysa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elysa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elysa, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,523 Americans ever recorded as Elysa. The median Elysa alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,368 people named Elysa (1,364 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 116 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 164 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 414 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 211 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Elysa born?
The states with the most babies named Elysa are California, New York and Texas, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elysa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Elysa?
Elysa is a less common spelling of Elisa: SSA has recorded 1,523 Elysa and 47,804 Elisa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 208,919 babies since 1880, Elysa is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 2,829 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 Elysa
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 Elysa and names like it
- Compare Elysa and ElisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElysa peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elysa since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Elysa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elysa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.