Elis

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Elis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Elis: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #280, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#280highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
2000	#2167
2001	#3262
2003	#4373
2004	#3197
2005	#3970
2008	#3860
2009	#3031
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#3681
2013	#4739
2014	#3514
2015	#4103
2016	#2547
2017	#2706
2018	#1887
2019	#2869
2020	#2042
2021	#2499
2022	#2325
2023	#2689
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #280 among boys in England and Wales, #535 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #535 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #280 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elis appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,121 births with the name.

Elis across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Elis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#535 (1996)	#280 (2024)	#280 (2024)	29 of 29	2,121 (1996–2024)	165 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#1887 (2018)	#2574 (2024)	24 of 28	168 (1997–2024)	15 (2018)

Elis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Elis in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	106	4 of 10	27
2000s	422	10 of 10	42
2010s	843	10 of 10	84
2020sbusiest	750	5 of 10	150

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 150 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 47, from 118 to 165.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Elis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #280 in England and Wales in 2024.

Elis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#280	161	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#281	163	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#308	146	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#317	147	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#338	133	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#296	165	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#375	118	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#401	109	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#470	86	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#526	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#527	72	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#514	72	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#671	50	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#631	53	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#687	45	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#696	43	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#613	51	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#580	52	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#631	44	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#512	53	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#586	38	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#524	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#638	29	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#554	34	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#639	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#644	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#788	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#535	32	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #280, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 165 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Elisabet · #154, 68y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Joss · #280, 31y
Clyde · #279, 33y
Daisie · #281, 29y
Harlee · #281, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Isha · #280, 30y
Joss · #280, 31y
Wilson · #280, 29y
Anna-Rose · #281, 22y

Elis was ranked #280 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Elis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Elis without appearing here.

Elis moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4739 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1887 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Elis

Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3262 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #965.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3262 and #1107.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #3514 and #1628.
Frida Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2167 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #2727.

Moved the opposite way to Elis

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Elis

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Elis went from #535 to #280 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #280 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elis

Elis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elis across 2 official records

Elis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Elis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Elis and the names beside it

Elis moved ahead of

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Elis at a glance

Elis across 2 official records

Elis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Elis appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Elis

Elis and the names beside it

Elis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Elis

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