girls:
1.5k births since 1950
#4242 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1950
#6244 (19th percentile)
The name Elysa is the #6,244 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,501 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 19.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,242 (25.8% percentile) for all time with 1,501 births since 1950.
Elysa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950).
For girls, Elysa reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #784) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elysa ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 27.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elysa".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Elysa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.2% confident that Elysa is pronounced as ih-LAI-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-LEE-suh, at 11.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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