Elise
Girl nameElise 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
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).
Names with a similar vibe
Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Elise.
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