Elise

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Alice in BR Brazil, IT Italy, PT Portugal and אליס in QA Qatar.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Elise is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Élise, Elisé, Elisè, El̷i̷s̷e̷

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Élise, Elisé, Elisè

• Finnish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland, Sweden, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Élise, Elisé

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Elisé, Élise, Élisé, Elisè

• Russian given name100 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, United States

  Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Polish

  Also written Элиза, Eliza, Еліза, Elisa, Елиза

• Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

  Also written Élise

• Italian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Élise

• a separate given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Élise, Elisé, E̶l̶i̶s̶e̶, Êlisê

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Elise is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• French: short form of Elisabeth. The name was introduced into the Englishspeaking world (where it is often written without the accent} in the late r9th century.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In French, Du nom hébreu Elisheba/Élisabeth, « Dieu est serment » ou « force divine ». Fête non indiquée.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Forme courte d’Élisabeth ou d’Élise; hébreu Elisheva « Dieu est serment ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In Swedish, Elise och Elisa är ursprungligen smekformer till → Elisabeth. Namnet Elise har varit populärt de senaste årtiondena. Elise förekommer i den rikssvenska almanackan 20 september och i den finlandssvenska 19 november där även Elisa finns.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Short form of ELISABETH.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Lise Meitnerb. 1878ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-Swedish physicist
• Lisa Azuelosb. 1965FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker
• Elise Nealb. 1966USAmerican actress
• Cate Blanchettb. 1969AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actor and producer (born 1969)
• Renee Elise Goldsberryb. 1971USAmerican actress and singer
• Elise Stefanikb. 1984USUnited States Representative from New York since 2015 (Republican)
• Grimesb. 1988CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician, singer, record producer and music video director (born 1988)
• Margot Robbieb. 1990AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress (born 1990)
• Elise Baumanb. 1990CACanadian actress
• Elise Mertensb. 1995BEBelgian tennis player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Elise?

In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.

What does the name Elise mean, and where does it come from?

Short form of Élisabeth or Élise < Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).

How do you pronounce Elise?

A machine transcription gives /əlis/ (IPA) for English.

Is Elise a male or female name?

Elise is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Elise have the most bearers?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 489 thousand people named Alice, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Elise most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elise is densest in Norway — about 1 in 698 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Elise?

In Norway, the national register counted 7,828 people named Elise in 2025, about 1 in 698 residents.

How common is Elise compared with other names?

In Brazil, Elise is the 140th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.