Eilís
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Eilís is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Gaelic form of pElizabeth.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 18K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 234K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
303 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eilis in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 2 more.
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)Gaelic form of pElizabeth.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eilís counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 303 | 1 in 1.1M | 303 | Eilis | 133 |
| IE Ireland | #472 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Eilis | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 391K | 3 | Eilis | 91 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 1 | Eilis | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Eilis | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
303 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Eilís is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, a female given name, equivalent to English Elise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Irish Gaelic form of ELIZABETH .
as a word
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Eilís?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Eilís mean, and where does it come from?
- Gaelic form of pElizabeth. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Eilís a male or female name?
- Eilís 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 Eilís have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 303 people named Eilís, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eilis.
- How common is the name Eilís?
- In the United States, the national register counted 303 people named Eilís in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Eilís compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Eilís is the 472nd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eil%C3%ADsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eilís” — the 472nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.