Elise

Meaning: My God is an oath; my God is abundance
Origin: French/German (from Hebrew) — Variant of Elisabeth

Girl's name · #223 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave

Popularity over time

Elise's best rank, #152, came in 2012; it has settled back to #223 today. Roughly 75,000 girls have been named Elise since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

See where Elise is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 46 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Elise ranks in other countries and regions.

#51 in Sweden (2025) · #51 in Belgium (2025) · #63 in Norway (2025) · #113 in Netherlands (2025) · #116 in France (2025) · #176 in Switzerland (2025) · #250 in New Zealand (2025) · #260 in Scotland (2025) · #302 in N. Ireland (2025) · #335 in England & Wales (2025) · #351 in Austria (2025) · #393 in Ireland (2025) and 2 more.

Famous Elises

Elise Mertens — Belgian tennis player
Elise Stefanik — American politician (born 1984)
Elise Richter — Austrian philologist, scholar of Romance languages, and university teacher, Holocaust victim (1865–1943)
Elise Ottesen-Jensen — Norwegian-Swedish journalist (1886–1973)
Elise Thorsnes — Norwegian association football player

In stories & tradition

Elise Rothman^cs — Charmed (comics)
Elise Wassermann — The Tunnel (TV series)
Élise De La Serre — Assassin's Creed Rogue (video game)

What Elises become

Among 893 notable people named Elise:

Entertainers appear 1.67× more often than among typical names — e.g. Elise Neal, American actress.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Elyse (#918), Elise would rank around #190 with about 1,700 births last year — the newborns split about 83/17 between Elise and Elyse.

Similar names: Elyse · Aniyah · Eliza · Reese · Daniela · Brielle

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