Elease
Feminine · “my God is an oath”
Elease writes the long e that the shorter spelling leaves to the reader. Elise can be said with the vowel of feet or the vowel of fight, and nothing on the page settles it; this version does, at the cost of looking like an English word.
How old is the name Elease?
Elease first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Elease alive today was born around 1931, making them about 94 years old. About 1,000 people named Elease are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elease most popular?
Elease peaked in 1923, reaching #741 nationally. See the whole 1923 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Elisabeth to Elease
The story of Elease
Two quite separate names produce something close to this sound. Elizabeth gives Elise through French and German, a short form used across the continent for centuries. Eloise is Germanic, unrelated, and reached English through a famous twelfth-century correspondence and then a poem about it. In American records the spellings of both blur together — Elise, Eloise, Elease, Elouise — and families using them frequently had one in mind and wrote something that reads as the other. The ea spelling belongs to the American habit of writing a name the way it sounds, and it settles the vowel that both parents leave open.
Meaningscholars disagree
my God is an oath
The name descends from Elizabeth, whose Hebrew original is read either as an oath or as abundance. Whether a particular Elease descends from Elizabeth or from Eloise, which is a different name entirely, the record does not say.
How the name formed
- Elisabeth
- Elise
- Elease
Related forms: Elise · Elise
Pronouncing Elease
uh-LEES
Two syllables with the weight at the back. The ea can only be a long e, which is the whole reason the spelling exists.
Nicknames for Elease
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
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 192397 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #741reached in 1923
- Change vs 2014
- −50.0%5 in 2021, 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.
Elease in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elise in French — related form
- Elise in German — related form
Eleases among us
people named Elease are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Elease sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The vowel is unambiguous, which the commoner spellings are not.
- It is short, easy to say and read correctly at first sight.
- It sits behind one of the largest name families in Europe.
- Elise, Elyse and Elease are three spellings of one sound and all will be offered.
- The ea ending reads as an English word to some people, which the family may or may not want.
- Its parentage is genuinely double, so the meaning depends on the household.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eleases are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Elease are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Elease in 2025?
- Elease is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Elease with classmates?
- Elease will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More E names
The most-given names starting with E, all years combined.
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