Elise

Where Elise comes from

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Elise
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #326 among girls — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1984
    Elise Stefanik born
    United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
  3. 1995
    Elise Mertens born
    Belgian tennis player
  4. 2012
    Peak, #152
    2,121 babies named Elise — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Elise Mertens · Belgian tennis player, born 1995
  • Elise Stefanik · United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican), born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.