girls:
408 births since 1916
#5308 (7th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1922
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
424 births since 1916
#7315 (5th percentile)
The name Elize is the #7,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 424 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,308 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 408 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1922.
Elize first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Elize is available in 35 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (33 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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 Elize has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elize reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #921) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elize ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 51.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elize reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #545) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elize".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Elize. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Elize is pronounced as ih-LEEZ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-LEEZ, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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