In 2025, 149 US girls were named Elysia, making it the 1,444th most common girls’ name of the year, up 329 places from #1,773 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 114 girls named Elysia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,292, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 152. For comparison, it was #1,987 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elysia in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 4,503 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,130 babies named Elysia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 986 US girls were named Elysia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 149. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,787 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elysia ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #905 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elicia (4,295 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elyssia, Elecia and Elycia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lisa and Lissa.