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Elease

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Elease has been given to 3,047 babies in the U.S. since 1895. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Elease, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elease: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elease means

Elease is a given name.

The naming story behind Elease

Wikidata records Elease as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110677037, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,047 girls were recorded with the name Elease between 1895 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1923; its best national rank was #742 in 1923.

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.

How common is Elease?

Elease had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elease 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elease. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eleases were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elease was born before 1932 — so the typical Elease is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
637
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (805).

Is Elease 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (97)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#742
1923

Spellings of Elease

Elease is not the most common spelling — Elise is, with 40.8% against Elease's 1.7%.

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 Elease is used

Across 1910–2025, Elease was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,222 girls, against 1 in 33,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

045 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 2,222
  2. 2Georgia1 in 11,111
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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. Elease has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Elease

People whose public names include Elease, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Elease by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#742
1923
Peak year
1923
97 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,047
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elease

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

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Names with a curve like Elease

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Elease, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Elease

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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