girls:
288 births since 1976
#5428 (5th percentile)
boys:
260 births since 1911
#4326 (6th percentile)
overall:
548 births since 1911
#7191 (7th percentile)
The name Elis is the #7,191 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 548 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 7.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,428 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 288 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,326 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 260 births since 1911.
Elis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Elis is available in 44 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elis is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 57.1% of babies named Elis were girls. Interestingly, until around 1976, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1911 to 1975), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (58.2% girls from 1976 to 2023).
For girls, Elis reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #932) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elis is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #932 (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million.
For boys, Elis reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #917) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elis ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 39.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.7% confident that Elis is pronounced as EE-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-lihs, at 42.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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