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Elis

#6,917 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Elias

Elis has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #6,917 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.

Babies named Elis, 2025

1 in 207,000

Elis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Elis over time

In 2025, Elis went to 59% girls and 41% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Elis: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Elias

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elis means

Elis is a variant of Elias.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elis → Elias → Elijah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is my god”, recorded in English with the source elements Eliyahu.

Origin, language, and formation

Elis is used in Estonian, Faroese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elias and Eliisabet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 320 girls were recorded with the name Elis between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2022; its best national rank was #6,021 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,662 in 2020 to #6,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,159 in 2015 to #6,917 in 2025.

In the United States, 286 boys were recorded with the name Elis between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,816 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,154 in 2020 to #7,322 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,807 in 2015 to #7,322 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.

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How common is Elis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,917
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elis 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elis was born before 2016 — so the typical Elis is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
320
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2010s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Elis 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
+102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+745
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,242
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2022 (20)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,021
2023

Spellings of Elis

Elis is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 29.3% against Elis's <0.01%.

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 Elis is used

Across 1910–2025, Elis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Elis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elis around the world

Where Elis 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
    1997–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #4,295
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 745
Best rank ever
#6,021
2023
Peak year
2022
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
320
Count in 2025
16

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,322
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 168
Best rank ever
#1,816
1911
Peak year
2021
18 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Elis

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

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Sibling names for Elis

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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