Meaning not yet researched.
Elyse: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 286 in 2025. Its best rank was #305 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #305 in 1987; #918 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elyse in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#918 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #305.
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Elyse: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 286 girls in 2025. Peak: #305 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 803 (1987).
In 2025, 286 US girls were named Elyse, making it the 918th most common girls’ name of the year, down 168 places from #750 in 2024. That is 90 fewer than the 376 girls named Elyse in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #305, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 803. For comparison, it was #653 in 2015 and #856 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elyse in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 21,264 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,577 babies named Elyse.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,706 US girls were named Elyse; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 429. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,620 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elyse ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #587 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alyse (7,671 babies since 1880), Elise (75,252 babies since 1880), Eloise (72,815 babies since 1880) and Elease (3,047 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elyse in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 11 | #587 | #592 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #649 | #455 |
| Virginia | 11 | #673 | #795 |
| Ohio | 14 | #682 | #434 |
| New York | 22 | #739 | #650 |
| Michigan | 10 | #749 | #506 |
| Maryland | 6 | #758 | #937 |
| California | 38 | #792 | #761 |
| Missouri | 6 | #841 | #766 |
| Washington | 7 | #841 | #666 |
| Illinois | 10 | #869 | #734 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #870 | #981 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #887 | #489 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #923 | #1,279 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,012 | #856 |
| Florida | 15 | #1,014 | #715 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,023 | #976 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,111 | #989 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,280 | #404 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 286 | #918 | — | — |
| 2024 | 376 | #750 | — | — |
| 2023 | 344 | #812 | — | — |
| 2022 | 344 | #816 | — | — |
| 2021 | 314 | #869 | — | — |
| 2020 | 388 | #718 | — | — |
| 2019 | 385 | #734 | — | — |
| 2018 | 422 | #688 | — | — |
| 2017 | 429 | #682 | — | — |
| 2016 | 418 | #694 | — | — |
| 2015 | 440 | #653 | — | — |
| 2014 | 477 | #609 | — | — |
| 2013 | 495 | #581 | — | — |
| 2012 | 571 | #531 | — | — |
| 2011 | 479 | #599 | — | — |
| 2010 | 461 | #640 | — | — |
| 2009 | 455 | #649 | — | — |
| 2008 | 432 | #699 | — | — |
| 2007 | 389 | #751 | — | — |
| 2006 | 419 | #678 | — | — |
| 2005 | 386 | #707 | — | — |
| 2004 | 368 | #726 | — | — |
| 2003 | 349 | #734 | — | — |
| 2002 | 314 | #767 | — | — |
| 2001 | 292 | #808 | — | — |
| 2000 | 278 | #816 | — | — |
| 1999 | 270 | #806 | — | — |
| 1998 | 283 | #761 | — | — |
| 1997 | 248 | #836 | — | — |
| 1996 | 216 | #908 | — | — |
| 1995 | 249 | #797 | — | — |
| 1994 | 276 | #756 | — | — |
| 1993 | 264 | #781 | — | — |
| 1992 | 330 | #669 | — | — |
| 1991 | 412 | #565 | — | — |
| 1990 | 449 | #527 | 5 | #8,527 |
| 1989 | 612 | #406 | 7 | #6,423 |
| 1988 | 790 | #315 | 7 | #5,961 |
| 1987 | 803 | #305 | — | — |
| 1986 | 700 | #343 | — | — |
| 1985 | 639 | #365 | — | — |
| 1984 | 426 | #479 | — | — |
| 1983 | 244 | #699 | — | — |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1980 | 82 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1978 | 79 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1973 | 81 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1972 | 76 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1969 | 86 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1966 | 91 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1960 | 98 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1959 | 89 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1958 | 100 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1956 | 121 | #916 | — | — |
| 1955 | 172 | #722 | — | — |
| 1954 | 148 | #768 | — | — |
| 1953 | 119 | #858 | — | — |
| 1952 | 129 | #796 | — | — |
| 1951 | 95 | #952 | — | — |
| 1950 | 107 | #856 | — | — |
| 1949 | 95 | #910 | — | — |
| 1948 | 88 | #927 | — | — |
| 1947 | 97 | #899 | — | — |
| 1946 | 62 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1944 | 77 | #868 | — | — |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,196 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,178 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,352 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,792 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,937 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).