Elese
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elese has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1918, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Elese, 2015
1 in 463,000
Elese 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Elese?
Elese had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 463,000
- 8 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 320,718 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elese sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Eleses were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elese was born before 1943 — so the typical Elese is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 227
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (106).
Is Elese 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 1918 (21)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.3% average annual change
Spellings of Elese
Elese is not the most common spelling — Elsie is, with 19.1% against Elese'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.
Where Elese is used
Across 1910–2025, Elese was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 130,888 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 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. Elese has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Elese around the world
Where Elese 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 & Wales1998–2001#3,998in 2001
- South Australia1986–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Elese by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Elese
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elese
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.