Elys

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Elys: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #2,943, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#2943highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2003	#4373
2018	#5666
2024	#5891

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 5 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2021
Highest recorded position: #2943 among boys in England and Wales, in 1999 (recorded 1999–2021).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Elys appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 6 ranked years and 23 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1998.

Elys 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.

Elys'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 · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3225 (1999)	#5891 (2024)	5 of 27	16 (1998–2024)	4 (1999)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#2943 (1999)	#3017 (2021)	6 of 23	23 (1999–2021)	6 (2021)

Elys 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 Elys in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	6	2 of 10	3
2010s	8	2 of 10	4
2020s	6	1 of 10	6

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

Elys appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2943 in England and Wales in 1999.

Elys'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,943, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

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.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
2 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#5,891position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
6births registered in its largest year, 2021Under 25 births →

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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Elysha · #869, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Louisiana · #2942, 13y
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Ziana · #2942, 14y
Abdulsalam · #2941, 13y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ziana · #2942, 14y
April-Rose · #2945, 15y
Fariah · #2925, 19y
Israh · #2925, 22y

Elys 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 Elys without appearing here.

Elys moved ahead of

Courtney Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3411 and #3013 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3017 and #3990.
Tor Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4685 and #3315 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #3937.
Keith Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3411 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3017 and #3451.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2943 in England and Wales in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Elys

Elys at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Elys across 2 official records

Elys by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Elys appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Elys and the names beside it

Elys moved ahead of

Elys at a glance

Elys across 2 official records

Elys by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Elys appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Elys and the names beside it

Elys moved ahead of