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Elissia

Gender
Girl
Say it
e-LIZ-ee-a
UK rank, 2025
#2,675 for girls
US rank, 2025
#10,104 for girls

Elissia is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Elissia mean?

Spelling of Elisia; probably a variant of Elysia or an elaboration of Elisa

Elysia comes from Elysium, the paradise of the blessed in Greek mythology; Elisa is a short form of Elisabeth.

Meaning borrowed from Elisia.

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

Elissia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Elissia in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,675th among girls
Babies in 2025
10 about 1 in 28,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 47% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Elissia, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 26 girls.

Half of all the girls named Elissia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 38 girls in the UK were given Elissia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #882, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 26 in 20112025
Elissia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#2,675
20240–
20237#3,388
20226#3,728
202111#2,478
202012#2,268
201910#2,590
201810#2,631
201720#1,647
201626#1,361
201523#1,474
201420#1,596
201320#1,617
201217#1,828
201126#1,303
201014#2,004
200918#1,621
200819#1,548
200712#2,083
200613#1,860
200510#2,206
20049#2,226
20038#2,320
20023#4,284
20015#2,928
20007#2,304
19998#2,089
19985#2,855
19973#3,991

How popular is Elissia in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,104th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Elissia, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.

2025 had more girls named Elissia than any year since 2007.

Half of all the girls named Elissia in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 215 girls in the US were given Elissia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,015, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.

1960Busiest: 15 in 19992025
Elissia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
20240–
20238#11,164
20220–
20210–
20208#11,085
20196#13,793
20180–
20178#11,611
20168#11,776
20150–
20140–
20135#16,542
20127#13,477
20116#14,816
20100–
20097#13,698
20080–
200710#10,814
20069#11,412
20057#13,003
20049#10,684
20037#12,401
200210#9,476
20018#11,013
20009#9,867
199915#6,478
19988#10,116
199713#6,839
199612#7,125
19959#8,761
19940–
199310#8,045
19926#11,730
19916#11,501
19909#8,495
19896#10,841
198812#6,272
19870–
19860–
19850–
19846#9,139
19837#8,045
19827#8,222
19817#8,126
19800–
197910#6,188
19785#9,748
19770–
19760–
19756#7,982
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19605#6,389

Names like Elissia

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

Other spellings of Elissia

Names related to Elissia

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Elissia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/elissia, updated 20 October 2026.