Elysia
Elysia was given to 149 girls in 2025, #1,444 among girls’ names; 4,503 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Elysia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elysia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elysia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elysia is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elysia?
#1,444 among girls’ names, 2025
Elysia rose from #1,987 in 2015 to #1,444 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 56.0 to 92.7 per million.
152 babies in 2002, the peak
Elysia peaked in 2002, when 152 girls were given it, #1,291 among girls’ names. The 149 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,444 | 92.7 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,773 | 70.4 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,947 | 62.9 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,966 | 61.0 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,092 | 55.5 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,326 | 47.0 |
| 2019 | 85 | #2,177 | 50.6 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,091 | 54.1 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,043 | 55.6 |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,314 | 46.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,987 | 56.0 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,882 | 59.9 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,024 | 54.7 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,361 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,262 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,902 | 59.6 |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,993 | 56.6 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,904 | 58.7 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,942 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,764 | 62.1 |
| 2005 | 105 | #1,849 | 56.8 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,562 | 68.6 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,759 | 58.6 |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,291 | 84.6 |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,632 | 62.2 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,902 | 49.0 |
| 1999 | 95 | #1,714 | 53.6 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,774 | 49.8 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,988 | 41.4 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,658 | 52.5 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,030 | 38.1 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,671 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,966 | 39.2 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,322 | 30.4 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,190 | 32.0 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,879 | 39.5 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,807 | 40.1 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,649 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,449 | 51.8 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,552 | 45.5 |
| 1985 | 95 | #1,365 | 55.2 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,708 | 38.0 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,489 | 46.1 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,706 | 39.0 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,741 | 39.0 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,505 | 47.6 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,058 | 30.5 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,281 | 26.1 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,225 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,268 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,631 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,530 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,036 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,435 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,168 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,921 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,253 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,809 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,118 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,007 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,897 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,366 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,344 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elysia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elysia has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Elysia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elysia, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,503 Americans ever recorded as Elysia. The median Elysia alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,456 people named Elysia (3,420 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 361 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Elysia born?
The states with the most babies named Elysia are Texas, California and Florida, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,372 | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,607 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,271 | 0.8× |
| New York | 10 | #1,348 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 10 | #905 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #950 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,274 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,104 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #920 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,231 | 0.1× |
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 Elysia 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 322,579 babies since 1880, Elysia is the seventh most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 3,736 babies (4.0%), 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 Elysia
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 Elysia and names like it
- Compare Elysia and ElsieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sElysia peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elysia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Elysia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elysia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.