Elyse Girl
How popular is Elyse?
#918 girl name in 2025
286 baby girls were named Elyse in the US in 2025, making it the 918th most popular girl name.
Elyse popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #918 for girls (▼ 168 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 286 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-35% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #653 in 2015, #718 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1987 (803 girls) |
| Highest rank | #305 in 1987 |
| First recorded | 1913 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elyse counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elise family of names ranked #197 for girls in 2025 (#194 the year before), with 1,749 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elise | 1,367 | 78% |
| Elyse | 286 | 16% |
| Elize | 13 | 1% |
| Elis | 16 | 1% |
| Ellise | 10 | 1% |
| Eliz | 15 | 1% |
| Elisse | 14 | 1% |
| Ellyse | 12 | 1% |
| Elysse | 10 | 1% |
| Elys | 6 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Elyse is most popular
Babies named Elyse per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.4 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Michigan: 0.4 per 1,000 (65 girls)
- Ohio: 0.4 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Kansas: 0.3 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Elyse by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,825 |
| 1920s | 71 | #2,766 |
| 1930s | 43 | #2,829 |
| 1940s | 546 | #867 |
| 1950s | 1,188 | #721 |
| 1960s | 836 | #1,086 |
| 1970s | 763 | #1,276 |
| 1980s | 4,454 | #305 |
| 1990s | 2,997 | #526 |
| 2000s | 3,682 | #649 |
| 2010s | 4,577 | #530 |
| 2020s | 2,052 | #718 |
Girl names about as popular as Elyse
Questions
- Is Elyse a boy or girl name?
- Elyse is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elyse were girls.
- How popular is the name Elyse?
- 286 baby girls were named Elyse in the US in 2025, making it the 918th most popular girl name.
- When was Elyse most popular?
- Elyse peaked in 1987, when 803 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #305 in 1987.
- How many people are named Elyse?
- 21,264 babies have been named Elyse in the US since 1880. We estimate about 20,347 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 26.
- Where is Elyse most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elyse was most common in District of Columbia, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.