Elyse
Elyse was given to 286 girls in 2025, #918 among girls’ names; 21,264 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,200 Americans named Elyse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 39.
Elyse dropped 168 places in 2025, the #21 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elyse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elyse mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elyse is “a female given name from French.”
A rare spelling variant of Elise. By folk etymology, connected to Elysium.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elyse?
#918 among girls’ names, 2025
Elyse fell from #653 in 2015 to #918 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.18 per 1,000.
803 babies in 1987, the peak
Elyse peaked in 1987, when 803 girls were given it, #305 among girls’ names. The 286 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 286 | #918 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 376 | #750 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 344 | #812 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 344 | #816 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 314 | #869 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 388 | #718 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 385 | #734 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 422 | #688 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 429 | #682 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 418 | #694 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 440 | #653 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 477 | #609 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 495 | #581 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 571 | #531 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 479 | #599 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 461 | #640 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 455 | #649 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 432 | #699 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 389 | #751 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 419 | #678 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 386 | #707 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 368 | #726 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 349 | #734 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 314 | #767 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 292 | #808 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 278 | #816 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 270 | #805 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 283 | #761 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 248 | #836 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 216 | #907 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 249 | #796 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 276 | #755 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 264 | #780 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 330 | #669 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 412 | #565 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 449 | #526 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 612 | #406 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 790 | #315 | 0.44 |
| 1987 | 803 | #305 | 0.46 |
| 1986 | 700 | #343 | 0.41 |
| 1985 | 639 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1984 | 426 | #479 | 0.25 |
| 1983 | 244 | #699 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,494 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,446 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 79 | #1,456 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,406 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,288 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,657 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 81 | #1,279 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,328 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,366 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,467 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 86 | #1,201 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,092 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,231 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 91 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,232 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,172 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,546 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,273 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 98 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 89 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,045 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,001 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 121 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 172 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 148 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 119 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 129 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 95 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 107 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 95 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 88 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 97 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 77 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,068 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,337 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,194 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,916 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,669 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,205 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,560 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,658 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,790 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elyse has been given almost only to girls: 19 boys in 107 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elyse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyse, and how old are they?
20,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 21,264 Americans ever recorded as Elyse. The median Elyse alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 18,173 people named Elyse (18,113 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 119 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,510 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,090 |
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 Elyse born?
The states with the most babies named Elyse are California, Texas and New York, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 38 | #792 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,012 | 0.6× |
| New York | 22 | #739 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,014 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 14 | #682 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 11 | #587 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 11 | #673 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 10 | #869 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 10 | #749 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #923 | 0.5× |
Where Elyse is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elyse is most over-represented in New York: since 1913 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Elyse with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 450,599 babies since 1880, Elyse is the sixth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 286 of their 9,210 babies (3.1%), 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 Elyse
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 Elyse and names like it
- Compare Elyse and ElsieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sElyse peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyse since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Elyse: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Elyse.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Elyse alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.