Elyse
#918 for girls in 2025, 286 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 803 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 21,245since 1913
Elyse over time
Rank among girls' names. Elyse has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #918 | 286 | — | |
| 2024 | #750 | 376 | — | |
| 2023 | #812 | 344 | — | |
| 2022 | #815 | 344 | — | |
| 2021 | #868 | 314 | — | |
| 2020 | #718 | 388 | — | |
| 2019 | #733 | 385 | — | |
| 2018 | #687 | 422 | — | |
| 2017 | #682 | 429 | — | |
| 2016 | #694 | 418 | — | |
| 2015 | #653 | 440 | — | |
| 2014 | #609 | 477 | — | |
| 2013 | #580 | 495 | — | |
| 2012 | #530 | 571 | — | |
| 2011 | #598 | 479 | — | |
| 2010 | #640 | 461 | — | |
| 2009 | #649 | 455 | — | |
| 2008 | #699 | 432 | — | |
| 2007 | #749 | 389 | — | |
| 2006 | #678 | 419 | — | |
| 2005 | #706 | 386 | — | |
| 2004 | #725 | 368 | — | |
| 2003 | #732 | 349 | — | |
| 2002 | #767 | 314 | — | |
| 2001 | #808 | 292 | — | |
| 2000 | #815 | 278 | — | |
| 1999 | #806 | 270 | — | |
| 1998 | #761 | 283 | — | |
| 1997 | #834 | 248 | — | |
| 1996 | #908 | 216 | — | |
| 1995 | #797 | 249 | — | |
| 1994 | #751 | 276 | — | |
| 1993 | #781 | 264 | — | |
| 1992 | #669 | 330 | — | |
| 1991 | #564 | 412 | — | |
| 1990 | #527 | 449 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #406 | 612 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #315 | 790 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #305 | 803 | — | |
| 1986 | #343 | 700 | — | |
| 1985 | #365 | 639 | — | |
| 1984 | #479 | 426 | — | |
| 1983 | #697 | 244 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,489 | 80 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,528 | 78 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,474 | 82 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,442 | 84 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,454 | 79 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,404 | 80 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,286 | 85 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,655 | 58 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,399 | 73 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,276 | 81 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,325 | 76 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,364 | 78 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,464 | 69 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,201 | 86 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,090 | 95 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,227 | 75 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,102 | 91 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,226 | 77 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,103 | 98 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,169 | 87 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,540 | 53 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,268 | 76 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,087 | 98 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,130 | 89 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,045 | 100 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,002 | 108 | — | |
| 1956 | #914 | 121 | — | |
| 1955 | #722 | 172 | — | |
| 1954 | #768 | 148 | — | |
| 1953 | #857 | 119 | — | |
| 1952 | #794 | 129 | — | |
| 1951 | #952 | 95 | — | |
| 1950 | #855 | 107 | — | |
| 1949 | #909 | 95 | — | |
| 1948 | #923 | 88 | — | |
| 1947 | #898 | 97 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,078 | 62 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,048 | 55 | — | |
| 1944 | #867 | 77 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,327 | 38 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Elyse! It came in at #2,827, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Elyse
- 168 spots since 2024 (#750 → #918)
- 200 spots since 2020 (#718 → #918)
- 265 spots since 2015 (#653 → #918)
- Biggest jump: 792 spots in 1983 (#1,489 → #697)
- Biggest drop: 192 spots in 1956 (#722 → #914)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1987 at #305 (803 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1983–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,165 girls born in 1987 were named Elyse (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,620 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 21.5% of all girls named Elyse (4,577) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,827 (1913) | #3,809 |
| 1920s | 71 | #2,768 (1928) | #3,909 |
| 1930s | 43 | #2,831 (1932) | #3,533 |
| 1940s | 546 | #867 (1944) | #1,556 |
| 1950s | 1,188 | #722 (1955) | #904 |
| 1960s | 836 | #1,087 (1960) | #1,201 |
| 1970s | 763 | #1,276 (1973) | #1,407 |
| 1980s | 4,454 | #305 (1987) | #740 |
| 1990s | 2,997 | #527 (1990) | #740 |
| 2000s | 3,682 | #649 (2009) | #733 |
| 2010s | 4,577 | #530 (2012) | #641 |
| 2020s | 2,052 | #718 (2020) | #814 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Elyse in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 4,228 of them was named Elyse, which outranked 96.5% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 410,808 of them was named Elyse, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,376 names at #8,117; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.