Elise
About 75,252 American babies have been named Elise since 1880, most of them around 2012. In 2025 it ranked 223rd. About 67,000 Elises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Elise boys named Elise
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 75,252
- Estimated living today
- 67,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 152nd
- Rank in 2025
- 223rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 75,186 / 66
How old the living Elises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 75,252 babies given the name since 1880, about 67,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 29,000 of them are children and 4,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Elises
- Elise Mertens (born 1995)Belgian tennis player
- Elise Stefanik (born 1984)United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
- Renée Elise Goldsberry (born 1971)American actress and singer
- Elise Richter (1865–1943)Austrian philologist, scholar of Romance languages, and university teacher, Holocaust victim
- Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886–1973)Norwegian-Swedish journalist
- Elise Thorsnes (born 1988)Norwegian association football player
- Élise Bussaglia (born 1985)French association football player
- Elise Neal (born 1966)American actress
People named Elise with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Elise is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Elise is most concentrated in Utah (2.0×), Washington (1.7×), Colorado (1.6×), Minnesota (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Elise peaked:
Elise elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Elise +1 spelling | 125,925 | 40th |
| Belgium girls | Elise +1 spelling | 10,696 | 3rd |
| England and Wales girls | Elise | 9,629 | 97th |
| Norway girls | Elise | 7,889 | 26th |
| Sweden girls | Elise | 3,836 | 32nd |
| Scotland girls | Elise | 1,338 | 75th |
| Switzerland girls | Elise +1 spelling | 1,252 | 112th |
| Ireland girls | Elise +1 spelling | 564 | 132nd |
| France boys | Elise +1 spelling | 555 | 311th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Elise | 174 | 160th |
| New Zealand girls | Elise | 48 | 87th |
| Poland girls | Elise | 37 birth registrations | 371st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Elise: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Elise | 265 | 0.021% | 178th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Élise | 59 | 0.005% | 603rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Elise | 754 | 0.173% | 31st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Élise | 164 | 0.038% | 76th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Elise | 8 | 0.012% | 97th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Élise | 2 | 0.003% | 183rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Elise is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.28% of children were given it – 191 of them.
Elise: rank by region
In 2025, Elise was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Elise | 43 | 89 |
| Wallonia | Elise | 50 | 48 |
| Wallonia | Élise | 149 | 17 |
| Brussels | Élise | 132 | 8 |
| Brussels | Elise | 132 | 8 |
In 2015, Elise was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Elise | 10 | 1 |
In 2022, Elise was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Elise | 225 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elise appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (Elise, 39th), Province of Liège (Elise, 41st), Province of Luxembourg (Elise, 46th), Province of Antwerp (Elise, 47th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Elise, 48th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Elise, 58th), Province of West Flanders (Elise, 59th), Province of Limburg (Elise, 63rd), Province of Hainaut (Elise, 64th), Province of Namur (Elise, 68th), Brussels-Capital Region (Elise, 132nd) and Brussels-Capital Region (Élise, 132nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Elise by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 176 | 111th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Elise among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Elise | 8,624 | 22,466 |
| Finland girls | Elise +1 spelling | 1,289 | 5,622 |
| the Netherlands boys | Elise | 8 | 408 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 5,622 who carry it, 1,289 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Elise lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 180 women called Elise were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Elise | 8 | 0.018 | 2,438 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Elise | 15 | 0.015 | 3,137 |
| Girona | Elise | 6 | 0.014 | 2,861 |
| Barcelona | Elise | 43 | 0.014 | 2,872 |
| Asturias | Elise | 7 | 0.013 | 2,498 |
| Balears, Illes | Elise | 8 | 0.013 | 3,462 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Elise against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.