Analyse
Feminine · “grace”
In British spelling, analyze is a verb. That is the first thing an English reader outside America notices about this name, and there is no getting round it — the letters are identical. What the name is actually built from is Ana and Lise, two standing names joined the way Spanish-speaking American families have been joining names for decades.
How old is the name Analyse?
Analyse first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Analyse alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 700 people named Analyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Analyse most popular?
Analyse peaked in 2005, reaching #3587 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 11,355 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Analyse
The story of Analyse
Spanish-speaking American naming builds compounds freely and the results are usually legible on first hearing, because the parts are standard: Anamaria, Anabel, Analuisa, Analyze. Lise and Lisette came into Spanish from French and are entirely at home there. What makes this one unusual is the collision: the compound lands exactly on an English word, which the families using it were mostly not reading. American records show it from 1988 with a peak in 2005.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace, and my God is an oath
If the name is Ana joined to Lise, the halves mean favor or grace, from the Hebrew Channah, and my God is an oath, from Elisheva by way of the French Lise. If it was built from sound alone, nothing attaches. The English verb is a coincidence of spelling — it comes from a Greek word about loosening something into its parts, and has no connection to the name.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Lise
- Analyze
Related forms: Analís · Anne-Lise
Pronouncing Analyse
ah-nah-LEE-seh
Four syllables, stress on the third, with the final e sounded as a light eh — following Spanish, where no vowel is silent. English readers produce AN-uh-lize, which is the verb and not the name.
Nicknames for Analyse
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 200541 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3587reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%5 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Analyse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Analís in Spanish — spelling variant
- Anne-Lise in French — related form
Analyses among us
people named Analyse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Analyse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Analyse
- #14942
- Analyse on the 2025 chart
- #345
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Analyse went to 5 girls in 2025, but Annalise, Analise and Annalyse and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 887, which makes it the 345th most-given girls’ name of the year — 14,597 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 1,812 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 321,453 for Analyse itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ellyse test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Analyse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ellyse climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ellyse's path sketches the road Analyse is walking now.
Analyse sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Analyse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Analyse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are complete standing names, so it shortens two ways.
- It is legible to any Spanish speaker on first hearing.
- Four open syllables that sit well after almost any surname.
- It is spelled exactly like a common English verb, and outside the United States that spelling is the standard one.
- English readers will say the verb rather than the name, and the correction is required every time.
- Analise, Annalise and Analís all appear, so the spelling has to be given.
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Frequently asked
- How many Analyses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Analyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Analyse?
- Analyse is one of 5 recorded spellings. Annalise is the more common one — 764 births in 2025 against 5 for Analyse.
- How popular is the name Analyse in 2025?
- Analyse ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Analyse?
- About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Analyse — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Analyse with classmates?
- Analyse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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