Eliette
Feminine · “My God is Yahweh”
Eliette is French through and through: an Eli- name finished with -ette, the same small affectionate ending that gave French Juliette, Odette and Ninette. The mouth does the work in three light beats, ending on a bright stressed syllable. It has been in use in France for generations, and has only lately begun appearing in American records — most of the girls carrying it here are still small.
How old is the name Eliette?
Eliette first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Eliette is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Eliette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliette most popular?
Eliette peaked in 2025, reaching #1241 nationally. Today it ranks #1241, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Eliyahu to Eliette
The story of Eliette
The -ette ending is one of the most productive in French naming: attach it to a name and you get an affectionate, diminutive version, which is how Juliette came from Julie and Odette from Oda. Eliette follows that pattern from Élie, the French form of Elijah, a biblical name that reached French through Greek Elias and Latin. In France the name was in ordinary use through the twentieth century, and it belongs to the same wave of -ette names that spread across the francophone world. Its arrival in American records is much more recent, and the trend is upward rather than nostalgic.
Meaningscholars disagree
'My God is Yahweh', through the French Élie — or simply an Eli- name plus the French ending -ette
The most straightforward reading takes Eliette as a feminine diminutive of Élie, the French form of Elijah, from Hebrew Eliyahu, 'my God is Yahweh'. Others treat it as a French -ette formation on any of the Eli- names, Éliane and Élisabeth among them, in which case the Hebrew sense arrives second-hand. Both readings land in the same family; they disagree about which door it came through.
How the name formed
- Eliyahu
- Elias
- Élie
- Éliette
- Eliette
Related forms: Éliette · Elliette · Éliane · Élie
Pronouncing Eliette
ee-lee-ET
Three syllables with the stress on the last. Some American families say eh-lee-ET, and the French pronunciation is closer to ay-lyET, with the first two syllables run together. Because the name is still uncommon here, none of these has become the assumed default, so expect to supply it.
Nicknames for Eliette
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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
- 2005
- Most girls named
- 2025181 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1241reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +1.1%181 in 2025, from 179
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.
Eliette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Éliette in French — spelling variant
- Elliette in English — spelling variant
- Éliane in French — related form
- Élie in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Eliettes among us
people named Eliette are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,880 born in 2025 was named Eliette
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eliette
- #1241
- Eliette on the 2025 chart
- #704
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eliette went to 181 girls in 2025, but Elliette is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 261, which makes it the 704th most-given girls’ name of the year — 537 places above the chart.
- Eliette181
- Elliette80
About 1 girl in 6,158 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,880 for Eliette 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 Jayna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliette's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jayna climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jayna's path sketches the road Eliette is walking now.
Eliette is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eliette is headed
Eliette looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eliette beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliette in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Built on a French pattern with well-known company — Juliette, Odette, Colette — so the shape of it is already familiar to English speakers.
- Comes with short forms people already know how to spell and say: Ellie, Elle, Etta.
- Belongs to the long-documented Elijah/Élie family, giving it roots well beyond its recent American appearance.
- Rare enough in the US that a child is unlikely to share it in a classroom, while never sounding invented.
- Works in French and English without respelling, apart from the optional accent.
- It will be spelled for people, often. Elliette, Eliett, Eliete and Elliot all lie within easy reach of someone hearing it once, and Ellie is common enough that some listeners will assume that is the whole name.
- Stress is the other stumbling block: the name wants the accent on the final syllable, and a fair number of people will try EL-ee-et first.
- If Ellie becomes the everyday name — and it easily can — she joins a very large group of Ellies, which is worth knowing before you fall for the rarity of the full form.
- The American record for Eliette is short and recent, so there is no established generation of grown women carrying it here to point to. That cuts both ways: no fixed associations either.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eliettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Eliette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eliette?
- Eliette is the most-used spelling in US records — 181 of the 261 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Elliette.
- How popular is the name Eliette in 2025?
- Eliette ranks #1241 among US girl names in 2025, with 181 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliette?
- About 1 in every 8,880 US girls born in 2025 was named Eliette — 181 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliette with classmates?
- Eliette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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