Elyce
Feminine · “my God is an oath”
Nobody knows who Elise was. Beethoven wrote the piece in 1810, it was found forty years after his death and published as Fur Elise, and the manuscript has since been lost. The handwriting may have said Therese. It is the most played piano piece in the world and its dedicatee is a mystery.
How old is the name Elyce?
Elyce first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Elyce alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 800 people named Elyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elyce most popular?
Elyce peaked in 1954, reaching #2695 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,237 places below that high. See the whole 1954 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisabeth to Elyce
The story of Elyce
The Elise question has occupied musicologists for a century and a half. The autograph was in the hands of a woman in Munich in 1867, was published from her transcription, and then disappeared; a later scholar argued the title was misread and should be Fur Therese, for a woman Beethoven had proposed to. Others have put forward two more candidates. What is certain is the piece and the name attached to it, and between them they made Elise familiar to people who have never heard of Elisabeth. The other road to this spelling is much older and much less traveled: Elissa was the name of the Phoenician princess who founded Carthage, and it is Semitic rather than Greek or German.
Meaningscholars disagree
my God is an oath
Elise is a French and German short form of Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva. A separate name, Elissa, is Phoenician and belongs to the queen of Carthage — the Aeneid calls her Dido, but the older tradition calls her Elissa. This spelling can be read from either, and the c and y are American.
How the name formed
- Elisabeth
- Elise
- Elyce
Related forms: Elise · Elise · Elise
Pronouncing Elyce
uh-LEECE
Two syllables, stress on the second, ending in a clean s. ee-LEEZ, with a z, is the French and German saying. The c in this spelling is what pushes English speakers toward the s.
Nicknames for Elyce
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
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 198826 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2695reached in 1954
- Change vs 2023
- +40.0%7 in 2025, from 5
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.
Elyce in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elise in French — same name
- Elise in German — same name
- Elise in Dutch — same name
Elyces among us
people named Elyce are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Elyce
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elyce
- #11932
- Elyce on the 2025 chart
- #193
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elyce went to 7 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 — 11,739 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 945 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Elyce 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 Mauricia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elyce's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mauricia climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mauricia's path sketches the road Elyce is walking now.
Elyce 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
Elyce beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elyce in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Hebrew meaning inherited whole from Elisabeth.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names elsewhere.
- Two syllables and an unmistakable stress.
- Elise is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected for life.
- The ending is said with an s here and a z in Europe, so two sayings are in use.
- It is close enough to Alice, Elyse and Elisa to be misheard as any of them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elyces 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 Elyce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elyce?
- Elyce is one of 6 recorded spellings. Elise is the more common one — 1,367 births in 2025 against 7 for Elyce.
- How popular is the name Elyce in 2025?
- Elyce ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elyce?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Elyce — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elyce with classmates?
- Elyce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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