Baptismal names began to appear as surnames relatively late in the growth of the naming tradition.

Elise name history. The final possible Elise actually carried that name. Hughes of Gwerclas 1234. The name Elise is a girls name of French origin meaning pledged to God.

E lise as a girls name is pronounced el-LEES. In English and French speaking countries Elise is pronounced with two syllables but in countries with Germanic or Scandinavian languages it is pronounced with three. 1 Family History Site.

The surname Ellis was first found in Yorkshire where the first record of the name was William Alis mentioned in the Domesday Book as the progenitor of the Ellises of Kiddal county York and Stoneacre county Kent from whom sprang Sir Archibald Ellys a crusader who is said to have originated the cross and crescents so common to the Ellis coat-armour. She was a child prodigy who lived across the street from Therese Malfatti and was possibly Thereses piano student at the age of 13. We celebrate Elise on November 17th.

Last ranked 95 in 2012. It is of French and Hebrew origin and the meaning of Elise is God is my oath. The name was introduced into the English-speaking world where it is.

Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. Anne Brannen curator Courtesy of fantastically full family tree cf. Another opinion is that it is a shortened form of Elisabeth a variant of the Biblical name Elizabeth.

Last ranked 21 in 2019. The name developed into an individually given name in its own right and spread to English speaking countries by the late 19th century where the accent on the first syllable is dropped. The origins of the name Elsie are from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain.