Elle is a diminutive of multiple names starting with ‘El-‘ and has therefore many different meanings. It could be connected to Elizabeth and Eleanor, for example, thus meaning ‘My God is an oath’ or rather ‘shining light’.
Elle is a female first name.
The name Elle 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, Elle ranks 356. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Elle. In the entire USA, approximately 15,692 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Elle. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Elle is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Elle cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #325 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Elle, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Elle seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elle was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
791 babies were named Elle in 2022 - that's 1 in 187,398 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Elle ranked 363 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 four letters, the name Elle is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Elle 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 Elle, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elle
Elle
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
L
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
L
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. Elle sounds like this:
