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How popular is the name Elise?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elises are alive today.
Elise (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 335th in 2025 with 129 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 527 babies were given the name, the 97th most popular that year. It has declined since 2004; the 2025 figure is roughly 24% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 9,600 babies have been named Elise in England and Wales since 1996. Elise is one spelling of a name also recorded as Elyse; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Elise you are most likely to meet is around 23 years old. Half of all Elises born in England and Wales are between 13 and 27, and there are at least 12,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Elise.
How many babies are named Elise each year?
Includes all spellings: Elise, Elyse. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Elise spelling rank?
Where does the Elyse spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elise most popular?
Elise peaked in 2004, when 566 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Elise?
At least 12,000 people named Elise in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elise?
Most living Elises are between 13 and 27; the most common age is about 23.
Is Elise becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2004 peak.