Elison
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- EL-ih-sun
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Elison is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Ellis”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Elison mean?
English: variant of the surname Ellison
“son of Ellis”
A spelling of Ellison, an English surname meaning 'son of Ellis', from the medieval form of Elijah.
Is Elison a girl's or a boy's name?
Elison is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Elison in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Elison, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2016, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the boys named Elison in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Elison in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
Nicknames for Elison
- Eli 421 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Elison
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emerson, Anderson, Harrison, Jefferson, Lawson, Judson, Everson, Watson, Everett, Solomon, Wilson, Easton
Names related to Elison
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Elison: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elison, updated 20 October 2026.