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Elise

Girl name

Elise has been given to 75,252 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2012 and currently ranks #223 for girls (2025).

Meaning & origin /ˈiːliːs/

From French Élise or German Elise, both variants of Elisabeth.

Origin: Hebrew

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025

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Total babies

75,252

Peak year

2012 (2,126 babies)

Rank in 2025

#223 for girls

First recorded

1880

10-year trend

▼ -26%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Famous people named Elise

Lise Meitner

Austrian-Swedish physicist

Elise Mertens

Belgian tennis player

Elise Stefanik

United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)

Elise Richter

Austrian philologist, scholar of Romance languages, and university teacher, Holocaust victim (1865–1943)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

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