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Eilish

#9,623 in 2025Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Eilís

Eilish has been given to 356 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #9,623 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Eilish, 2025

1 in 332,000

Eilish over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eilish: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Eilís

Irish

What Eilish means

Eilish belongs to the name family reached through Eilish → Eilís → Élise → Élisabeth → Elisabeth. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eilish is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Eilish comes through Irish Eilís.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eilís, Élise, Élisabeth and Elisabeth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eilish is pronounced /ˈeɪlɪʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 356 girls were recorded with the name Eilish between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,306 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,111 in 2020 to #9,623 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eilish?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,623
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eilish sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eilish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eilishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eilish was born before 2003 — so the typical Eilish is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
356
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Choose a decade

1990s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Eilish 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
−2,606
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−512
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
28.6%
Peak was 1996 (35)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,306
1996

Spellings of Eilish

Eilish is not the most common spelling — Elise is, with 46.4% against Eilish's 0.22%.

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.

Where Eilish is used

Across 1910–2025, Eilish was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,947,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eilish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eilish around the world

Where Eilish 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1991–2024
    #384
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eilish by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,623
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 512
Best rank ever
#3,306
1996
Peak year
1996
35 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
356
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Eilish

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eilish

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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