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Ellyse

Gender
Girl
Say it
e-LEEZ
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Ellyse is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is my oath”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Ellyse mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Elyse, itself a spelling of Elise, a short form of Elisabeth

“God is my oath”

Variant spelling of Elise, the French short form of Elisabeth.

Meaning borrowed from Elyse. More on Wiktionary.

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

Ellyse is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ellyse in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 16 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ellyse in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 16 in 19982021
Ellyse in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20216#3,697
20201#7,326
20190–
20180–
20175#4,250
20160–
20153#5,983
20141#7,592
20138#3,060
20120–
20114#4,980
20101#7,520
20098#2,909
20088#2,895
20074#4,494
20065#3,724
20057#2,806
200412#1,812
20033#4,560
20029#2,040
20018#2,150
200011#1,689
199912#1,576
199816#1,289
199711#1,664
19967#2,201

How popular is Ellyse in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,360th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Ellyse, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.

Half of all the girls named Ellyse in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,689 girls in the US were given Ellyse or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #212, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

1983Busiest: 32 in 20032025
Ellyse in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
20247#12,156
20238#11,164
202212#8,536
202112#8,459
202017#6,625
201911#9,106
201812#8,612
201720#6,040
201620#6,184
201523#5,651
201420#6,205
201332#4,420
201219#6,573
201128#4,913
201032#4,493
200924#5,707
200825#5,571
200731#4,674
200627#5,085
200522#5,595
200430#4,488
200332#4,105
200221#5,440
200127#4,442
200015#6,802
199917#5,890
199817#5,794
199724#4,367
199616#5,766
199511#7,509
199411#7,598
199310#8,045
199216#5,711
199121#4,644
199023#4,225
19899#8,031
198826#3,580
198724#3,621
198611#6,153
19857#8,315
19848#7,396
19835#10,272

Nicknames for Ellyse

Names like Ellyse

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

Other spellings of Ellyse

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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, “Ellyse: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ellyse, updated 20 October 2026.