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How popular is the name Elis?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elises are alive today.
Elis (male) is an uncommon spelling of the boys' name Ellis in England and Wales, ranked 352nd in 2025 with 119 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2019, when 165 babies were given the name, the 296th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
Across all spellings of the name, the Ellis you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Ellises born in England and Wales are between 9 and 25, and there are at least 25,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 7.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Ellis.
How many babies are named Elis each year?
Includes all spellings: Elis, Ellis. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Elis spelling rank?
Where does the Ellis 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 Elis most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Ellis, peaked in 2019, when 945 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Elis spelling itself peaked in 2019, with 165 babies.
How many people are called Elis?
At least 25,000 people named Elis in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elis?
Most living Elises are between 9 and 25; the most common age is about 8.
Is Elis becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.