Eilis
#13,664 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Eilis has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #13,664 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Eilis, 2025
1 in 553,000
Eilis over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Eilis?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,664
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Eilis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eilis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Eiliss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Eilis was born before 2009 — so the typical Eilis is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 33.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 260
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Eilis rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,554
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,354
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.0%
- Peak was 2018 (20)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Eilis
Eilis is not the most common spelling — Ellie is, with 20.8% against Eilis's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Eilis around the world
Where Eilis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#4,867in 2025
- Scotland1997–2017#808in 2017
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#397in 2025
- Ireland1964–2025#885in 2025
- France2010–2024#6,376in 2024
- South Australia1976–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Eilis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Eilis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Eilis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.