Elise is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Elise isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Elise ranks 172. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 11 were named Elise. In the entire USA, approximately 65,210 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elise. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Elise is a short form of Elizabeth, which is a variation of the Hebrew Elischeva. It is composed of the words “el” (“the powerful, God”), “sheba” (“seven”), and “saba” (the oath). The name therefore means as much as “My God is abudance” or “My God is an oath”.
A famous composition.. by Ludwig van Beethoven is called 'Für Elise' (For Elise). It was published in 1867, 40 years after the composer's death.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Elise annualy. This means that there have been girls named Elise who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Elise have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2012 it holds its present record at #145 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elise was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Elise has never been ranked higher than #145. In 2022, she rivaled the 245 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,200 girls named Elise were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Elise were born, there have been 939 newborns who were given this name.
The name Elise may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Elise is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,070 women in Utah is called Elise. In total, that’s 1,092 women who feel addressed when the name Elise is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #282 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Elise as the answer a total of 65,210 times. This places Elise at #434 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Elise as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Elise is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elise and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elise, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elise
Elise
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
S
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
L
I
S
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elise sounds like this:
