Elodie
Top 1000
About Elodie
The lyrical and melodious Elodie, a Nameberry favorite, is starting to rise through the US popularity charts for the first time since the 1880s. This once uncommon member of the El- family is a Top 100 name in the UK, Canada, and New Zealand, while in the US, it was one of the fasted rising names of 2024 and now sits in the Top 400.
Elodie derives from Elodia, the Spanish variation of Alodia, a gothic German name associated with Saint Alodia. Saint Alodia was a child martyr in 9th century Spain, along with her sister Nunilo. In France, Elodie is spelled Élodie, with an accent over the E.
Élodie is a mono-named Italian singer and model as well as a major character in the Emile Zola novel The Earth. Princess Elodie is the protagonist of the video game Long Live The Queen and there was a character on The Hills named Elodie.
Given to around 840 girls in the US in 2024 compared to 380 the year before, Elodie remains a fresher feeling alternative to Melody or Ella.
Pronounced el-uh-DEE.
As of October 2026, Elodie ranked #310 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #20.
Editor's take: The name Elodie is a girl's name of French origin meaning "foreign riches".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,174 | 209 | 117 |
| 2015 | #1,168 | 216 | 121 |
| 2016 | #1,055 | 247 | 139.4 |
| 2017 | #1,029 | 252 | 146 |
| 2018 | #1,053 | 243 | 142.9 |
| 2019 | #866 | 309 | 184.1 |
| 2020 | #702 | 400 | 247.4 |
| 2021 | #740 | 385 | 234.6 |
| 2022 | #682 | 428 | 261 |
| 2023 | #738 | 381 | 237.4 |
| 2024 | #370 | 839 | 517.8 |
| 2025 | #310 | 980 | 609.7 |
World rankings
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Elodie on lists
Famous Elodies
- Élodie Bouchez
French actress
- Élodie Navarre
French actress
- Élodie Frégé
French singer and actress
- Elodie Keene
American film director
- Élodie Yung
French actress
- Elodie Lauten
French,American composer
- Élodie Ginette Thomis
French footballer
- (Nioun Chin) Elodie Li Yuk Lo
Mauritian Olympic beach volleyball player
- Élodie Ouédraogo
Belgian Olympic sprinter
- Elodie Ghedin
Canadian parasitologist and virologist
- Elodie Portaries
French rugby player
- Elodie Guiglion
French rugby player
- Elodie Harper
English TV journalist; daughter of actress Suzy Kendall and Sandy Harper
- Élodie Leila Steen
daughter of pro wrestler Kevin Owens
Elodie in pop culture
- "To Elodie" (1904)
poem by the Irish poet John Todhunter
- Elodie Parris
character in "Hex Hall" by Rachel Hawkins
- Elodie "Lodie
" character in "A Tale of Two Castles" by Gail Carson Levine
- Elodie
character in "Rose Under Fire" by Elizabeth Wein
- Elodie
character in Margaret Haddix's Shadow Children series
- Queen Elodie
main character in the video game "Long Live the Queen"
- Elodie Verlac
character in "The Mortal Instruments" by Cassandra Clare
- Elodie Lochan
character in "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
- Elodie
Michonne's daughter in the comic book series "The Walking Dead"
- Elodie Davis
main character in the Netflix original "Trinkets"
- Elodie
character on O.K. K.O.
Variations & nicknames
- ElodiaSpanish