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Eilee

Girl · EYE-lee · Irish

Eilee is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).

What does Eilee mean?

Irish: spelling of Eily; pet form of Eibhlin (Eileen)

Irish pet form of Eileen; Eily O'Connor is the heroine of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn.

Say it
EYE-lee

Meaning borrowed from Eily.

Is Eilee a girl's or a boy's name?

Eilee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Eilee in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,545among girls
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 95,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 12% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Eilee, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

Half of all the girls named Eilee in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 141 girls in the US were given Eilee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,330, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 27 in 20172025
Eilee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#6,545
202415#7,247
202318#6,404
202223#5,462
202117#6,686
202018#6,321
201918#6,410
201821#5,781
201727#4,920
201614#7,985
201516#7,263
20140–
201310#10,230
201213#8,628
201117#7,115
201015#7,877
200912#9,375
200819#6,796
20078#12,671
20066#15,147
20056#14,495

Names like Eilee

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Eilee

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