Elison
#9,985 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Elison has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #9,985 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Elison, 2025
1 in 474,000
Elison 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Elison over time
In 2025, Elison went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Elison?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,985
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Elison 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elison. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Elisons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Elison was born before 2016 — so the typical Elison is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 98
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Elison 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
- +1,328
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,623
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.0%
- Peak was 2016 (10)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.7% average annual change
Spellings of Elison
Elison is not the most common spelling — Nelson is, with 33.2% against Elison's 0.04%.
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.
Elison around the world
Where Elison 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 & Wales2017–2020#4,608in 2020
- France2005–2020#6,718in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Elison by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Elison
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Elison
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.