Ellyse
Feminine · “Hebrew Elisheba”
Beethoven may not have written Fur Elise. The manuscript is lost, the piece was published forty years after his death from a copy, and the editor may have misread the dedication: Therese Malfatti, whom Beethoven proposed to in 1810, owned the autograph. One of the most played pieces of music in the world may be named after a transcription error.
How old is the name Ellyse?
Ellyse first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Ellyse alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 800 people named Ellyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ellyse most popular?
Ellyse peaked in 1988, reaching #3585 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 4,777 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheba to Ellyse
The story of Ellyse
The Bagatelle in A minor was written in 1810 and not published in Beethoven's lifetime. Ludwig Nohl published it in 1867 from a manuscript he said was in the possession of Therese Malfatti, and the manuscript has never been seen since. Beethoven's handwriting was notoriously difficult, and the proposal that Nohl misread Therese as Elise has been made repeatedly since the 1920s. Other candidates have been suggested, including a singer named Elisabeth Rockel, which would make Elise correct after all. What is certain is that we have no autograph, that the piece was published from a source now lost, and that the person named in its title cannot be identified. The name Elise itself is entirely straightforward: a German clip of Elisabeth, the same name as Elizabeth, Isabel, Lisbeth and Betty.
Meaning
Hebrew Elisheba, my God is an oath
Elise is a German and French short form of Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheba, from el, God, and sheva, an oath or the number seven, usually read as my God is an oath or God is abundance. Ellyse is an American respelling with a doubled l and a y. It peaks in 1988.
How the name formed
- Elisheba
- Elisabeth
- Elise
- Ellyse
Related forms: Elise · Elise · Elyse
Pronouncing Ellyse
eh-LEESS
Two syllables, stress on the second. The French and German say ay-LEEZ with a voiced s; English usually unvoices it. EL-iss with the stress at the front is a misreading the doubled l encourages.
Nicknames for Ellyse
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200332 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3585reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- +71.4%12 in 2025, from 7
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.
Ellyse in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elise in French — spelling variant
- Elise in German — same name
- Elyse in English — spelling variant
Ellyses among us
people named Ellyse are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Ellyse
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ellyse
- #8362
- Ellyse on the 2025 chart
- #193
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ellyse went to 12 girls in 2025, but Elise, Elyse and Elize and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 1,700, which makes it the 193rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,169 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 945 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Ellyse 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 Frannie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ellyse's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Frannie climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Frannie's path sketches the road Ellyse is walking now.
Ellyse 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
Ellyse beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ellyse in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled and the name family is ancient.
- Elle and Ellie are both current short forms.
- The sound is elegant and easy to say.
- Elise and Elyse are both more common spellings.
- The doubled l invites a front-stressed misreading.
- The final consonant is voiced in French and German and not in English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ellyses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Ellyse are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ellyse?
- Ellyse is one of 5 recorded spellings. Elise is the more common one — 1,367 births in 2025 against 12 for Ellyse.
- How popular is the name Ellyse in 2025?
- Ellyse ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ellyse?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Ellyse — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ellyse with classmates?
- Ellyse will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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