Elysabeth

Girls' name

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Elysabeth has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2001, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Elysabeth, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elysabeth: meaning, origin, and history

My God is an oath, through Elizabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elysabeth means

Elysabeth belongs to the name family reached through Elysabeth → Elizabeth. Its meaning is “my God is an oath”.

Origin, language, and formation

Elysabeth is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elizabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Elysabeth between 1985 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,410 in 2001.

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 Elysabeth?

Elysabeth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elysabeth 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elysabeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elysabeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elysabeth was born before 2002 — so the typical Elysabeth is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
192
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Choose a decade

2000s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Elysabeth 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 2001 (17)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,410
2001

Spellings of Elysabeth

Elysabeth is not the most common spelling — Elizabeth is, with 97.0% against Elysabeth'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.

Elysabeth around the world

Where Elysabeth 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.

  • France
    1949–2016
    #6,819
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1994–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elysabeth 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
#6,410
2001
Peak year
2001
17 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
192
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elysabeth

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

Sibling names for Elysabeth

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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