Elise

“Variant of Elisabeth — My God is an oath; my God is abundance” — Hebrew origin

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

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. 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.

Around the world: #51 in Belgium (2025) · #51 in Sweden (2025) · #63 in Norway (2025).

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

Famous Elises

Elise Mertens — Belgian tennis player
Elise Stefanik — United States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
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 — Charmed
Elise Wassermann — The Tunnel
Élise De La Serre — Assassin's Creed Rogue · Assassin's Creed Unity

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.

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

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