Elise

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Alice in BR Brazil, IT Italy, IN India and 11 more and אליס in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Elise is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name93K records spelled Elise7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Spain

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Élise, Elisé, Elisè, El̷i̷s̷e̷

• a separate given name37K records spelled Elise4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands

  Also written Élise, Elisè, Elisé

• Finnish given name33K records spelled Elise6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Elisé, Élise

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name5.8K records spelled Elise5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Elisé, Élise, Élisé, Elisè

• Polish given name5.0K records spelled Elise124 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, United States

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Eliza, Элиза, Elisa, Элиса, Еліза

• Hindi given name3.4K records spelled Elise6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

  Also written Élise

• Italian given name3.4K records spelled Elise2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands

  Also written Élise

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Elise5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Also written Élise, Êlisê, E̶l̶i̶s̶e̶, Elisé

68 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Elise is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• French: short form of Elisabeth. The name was introduced into the Englishspeaking world (where it is often written without the accent} in the late r9th century.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In French, Du nom hébreu Elisheba/Élisabeth, « Dieu est serment » ou « force divine ». Fête non indiquée.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Forme courte d’Élisabeth ou d’Élise; hébreu Elisheva « Dieu est serment ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Swedish, Elise och Elisa är ursprungligen smekformer till → Elisabeth. Namnet Elise har varit populärt de senaste årtiondena. Elise förekommer i den rikssvenska almanackan 20 september och i den finlandssvenska 19 november där även Elisa finns.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Short form of ELISABETH.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lise Meitnerb. 1878ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-Swedish physicist
• Lisa Azuelosb. 1965FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker
• Elise Nealb. 1966USAmerican actress
• Cate Blanchettb. 1969AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actor and producer (born 1969)
• Renee Elise Goldsberryb. 1971USAmerican actress and singer
• Elise Stefanikb. 1984USUnited States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
• Grimesb. 1988CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician, singer, record producer and music video director (born 1988)
• Margot Robbieb. 1990AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress (born 1990)
• Elise Baumanb. 1990CACanadian actress
• Elise Mertensb. 1995BEBelgian tennis player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,266 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Elise?

We estimate roughly 1.0 million people bear Elise (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Elise have the most bearers?

We estimate about 489 thousand people bear Elise in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alice.

Where is Elise most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elise is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 231 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Elise compared with other names?

In Brazil, Elise is the 115th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Elise a male or female name?

Elise is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Elise mean?

Recorded meaning: Short form of Élisabeth or Élise < Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva.