Elise
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About Elise
Elise is one of those golden names that stylish but not TOO popular. Its appeal is due in large part to its French flair and to the love for El-names in general.
Elise originated as French diminutive of Elizabeth but is now most commonly used as self-contained name. In English and French speaking countries, Elise is pronounced with two syllables, but in countries with Germanic or Scandinavian languages it is pronounced with three syllables, closer to Elisa.
Elise was introduced into the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth century. Today, it can make an original, modern honor name for an ancestral Elizabeth. Emily Blunt played a character named Elise in The Adjustment Bureau. Fur Elise is one of Beethoven's most popular piano pieces. Piers Morgan named his daughter Elise.
Pronounced uh-LEEZ.
As of October 2026, Elise ranked #223 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #152 in 2012, Nameberry popularity #70.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #168 | 1,967 | 1,101.1 |
| 2015 | #174 | 1,844 | 1,033 |
| 2016 | #168 | 1,915 | 1,080.7 |
| 2017 | #177 | 1,715 | 993.4 |
| 2018 | #176 | 1,670 | 981.7 |
| 2019 | #207 | 1,472 | 877 |
| 2020 | #212 | 1,364 | 843.8 |
| 2021 | #242 | 1,252 | 763 |
| 2022 | #260 | 1,204 | 734.1 |
| 2023 | #274 | 1,145 | 713.6 |
| 2024 | #252 | 1,266 | 781.4 |
| 2025 | #223 | 1,367 | 850.5 |
World rankings
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Elise on lists
Famous Elises
- Elise Victoria Feodora Sophie Adelheid
Princess of Hohenlohe,Langenburg; Princess Reuss Younger Line
- Elise Burgin
American tennis player
- Elise Neal
American actress
- Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance
American pathologist and physician
- Elise Stefanik
U.S. Congresswoman from New York; youngest woman ever elected to Congress
- Elise Crombez
Belgian model
- Elise Gatien
Canadian actress
- (Mary) Elise Ray
American gymnast
- Elise Nicole Testone
American pop singer
- Elise Blake
English actress
- Elise Bauman
Canadian actress
- Elise Ippolito (born Frances Gres)
American painter
- Elise Kellond
Knight, Australian soccer player
- Élise Bussaglia
French football player
- Elise Hove Thorsnes
Norwegian football player
- Kimberly Elise (Trammel)
American actress
- Élise Marie Annonciade
Princess Murat (b. 1977), daughter of Joachim, 8th Prince Murat; twin of sister Pauline Béatrice Marie
- Elise Lasalle (b. 1995)
daughter of actress Eva Pope and Laurence Lasalle
- Elise Chin (b. 2010)
daughter of Singaporean actor Marcus Chin
- Elise Morgan (b. 2011)
daughter of British TV personality Piers Morgan
Elise in pop culture
- Elise McKenna
character from the film "Somewhere in Time"
- Elise de la Serre
character from the video game "Assassin's Creed: Unity"
- Elise Storton
main character in Melody Carlson's "Never Been Kissed"
- Elise
character in video game "Fire Emblem: Fates"
- Elise Whisks
character from the "Selection" trilogy
- Elise the Spider Queen
character from the video game "League of Legends"
- "A Letter to Elise
" song by The Cure
- "A Perfect Day
Elise," song by PJ Harvey
- "Fur Elise
" a bagatelle composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Elise
character in horror movie franchise "Insidious"
- Elise
a monkey villager from “Animal Crossing”
- Elise
a club in the video game series "Yakuza"