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Elyse

As a girl's name, Elyse is understood to mean "God is my oath". It settled in after its 1980s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

EtymologyVariant of Elise/Elizabeth
EtymologyMeaning "God is my oath"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
36
1920s
71
1930s
43
1940s
545
1950s
1,188
1960s
836
1970s
763
1980s
4,467
1990s
3,001
2000s
3,678
2010s
3,764
Peaked in the 1980s · 18,392 total U.S. births since 1900