Elysia
Feminine · “Of Elysium”
Elysia is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,496 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Elysia is the feminine of the Latin adjective Elysius — "of Elysium," the field of the blessed that Homer described and Virgil sent Aeneas to visit. It is the same word Paris borrowed for the Champs-Élysées. Four syllables that lean on a long middle sound, the way Elisa and Alicia do, and then land soft.
How old is the name Elysia?
Elysia first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Elysia alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 4,400 people named Elysia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elysia most popular?
Elysia peaked in 2002, reaching #1288 nationally. Today it ranks #1443, 155 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ēlysion to Elysia
The story of Elysia
Elysium appears first in Homer's Odyssey, where the sea god Proteus tells Menelaus he will not die but be carried to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth. Virgil took it up in the Aeneid, and Latin writers formed the adjective Elysius, feminine Elysia, for anything belonging to that place. The word outlived the belief: seventeenth-century Paris named a new avenue the Champs-Élysées, and English poets kept "Elysian" for any scene of unbroken calm. Elysia as a given name for girls is a much later and thinner story — it turns up in American records only in the modern era, in quiet but unbroken use ever since.
Meaningscholars disagree
Of Elysium — the fields of the blessed
Two serious readings compete. The first takes it straight from Latin Elysius/Elysia, "Elysian, belonging to Elysium," from Greek Ēlysion. The second treats it as an elaborated English spelling within the Elise–Alicia–Alyssa family, alongside Elisia and Alysia, where the meaning follows whichever of those names you trace it to. Worth adding: the Greeks themselves never explained where Ēlysion came from, so even the first road ends in an unexplained word.
How the name formed
- Ēlysion
- Elysium
- Elysia
Related forms: Elisia · Elysha · Alysia · Elisia
Pronouncing Elysia
eh-LEE-see-uh
Three readings are all in real use: eh-LEE-see-uh, ee-LEE-zhuh, and ee-LISS-ee-uh. None is wrong, so whichever you choose will need saying out loud for people the first time.
Nicknames for Elysia
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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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 2002152 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1288reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- +30.7%149 in 2025, from 114
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.
Elysia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Elisia in English — spelling variant
- Elysha in English — spelling variant
- Alysia in English — related form
- Elisia in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Elysias among us
people named Elysia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 10,787 born in 2025 was named Elysia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elysia
- #1443
- Elysia on the 2025 chart
- #736
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elysia went to 149 girls in 2025, but Elisia, Elicia and Elycia are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 226, which makes it the 736th most-given girls’ name of the year — 707 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 7,112 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 10,787 for Elysia 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 Marlis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elysia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlis climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlis's path sketches the road Elysia is walking now.
Elysia is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Elysia is headed
Elysia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Elysia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elysia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Plugs straight into the Ellie cluster, so a very familiar short form is available from day one without any explaining.
- The spelling follows a word English already knows — Elysian — which gives people a hook when they ask how it's written.
- A documented classical line running back through Virgil and Homer, unbroken as a word even where the name is recent.
- Sits comfortably beside Elisa, Alicia and Alyssa in sound without duplicating any of them.
- The vowel pattern carries easily in Spanish, Italian and French, which matters in the states where the name is strongest.
- Expect to spell it. Elisia, Elysia, Alysia and Elysha are all in circulation, and the L-Y-S in the middle is the part people guess wrong most often.
- There is no single agreed pronunciation. That is manageable, but it means a lifetime of a small correction at introductions rather than one settled version everyone reaches for.
- Elysium is, in the Greek and Roman sources, where the blessed dead go. Most people won't make the connection at all — but some readers of classics will, and it's better to hear it now than at a christening.
- She is likely to be the only one wherever she goes. That means no surname initial in the classroom, and also no shortcut: the name will always be introduced rather than recognized.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elysias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Elysia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elysia?
- Elysia is the most-used spelling in US records — 149 of the 226 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Elisia, Elicia and Elycia.
- How popular is the name Elysia in 2025?
- Elysia ranks #1443 among US girl names in 2025, with 149 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elysia?
- About 1 in every 10,787 US girls born in 2025 was named Elysia — 149 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elysia with classmates?
- Elysia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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