girls:
20.6k births since 1913
#1013 (82nd percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1988
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
20.6k births since 1913
#1786 (77th percentile)
The name Elyse is the #1,786 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,601 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 76.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,013 (82.3% percentile) for all time with 20,582 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1988.
Elyse first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Elyse is available in 105 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (105 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 Elyse has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Elyse reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 63.9% percentile (ranked #290) with 428 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 428 births per million (ranked 63.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Elyse ranks #624 for girls (34.1% percentile) with 197 births per million, which is 45.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Elyse reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elyse".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Elyse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.2% confident that Elyse is pronounced as ih-LEES, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-LEEZ, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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