Elysse
Elysse was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,638 among girls’ names; 778 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elysse by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elysse mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Elysse is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Elise.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elysse?
#9,638 among girls’ names, 2025
Elysse fell from #8,601 in 2015 to #9,638 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
35 babies in 1987, the peak
Elysse peaked in 1987, when 35 girls were given it, #2,796 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,638 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,554 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,165 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,620 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,629 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,762 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,845 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,602 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,944 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,711 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,601 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,184 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,497 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,299 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,911 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,150 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,762 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,477 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,168 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,244 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,921 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,418 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,679 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,161 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,881 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,321 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,274 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,466 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,882 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,347 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,890 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,080 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,269 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,108 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,482 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,930 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,187 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,325 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,796 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,670 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,139 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,431 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,295 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,008 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,224 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elysse a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elysse has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elysse: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elysse, and how old are they?
An estimated 764 Americans named Elysse and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Elysse (709 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 Elysse born?
The states with the most babies named Elysse are California, Florida and New York, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 116 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Elysse is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elysse is most over-represented in California: since 1953 it was given 1.1 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 Elysse 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 390,875 babies since 1880, Elysse is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 8,438 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 Elysse
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 Elysse and names like it
- Compare Elysse and ElsieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sElysse peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elysse since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Elysse.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elysse alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.