Girl's name
Elodie
Say it EL-oh-dee
Roots in French and Spanish 3 syllables
Where Elodie is loved, common and rare
Common across England and Wales, Quebec and four more places. Rare in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Scotland and 14 more places.
1 in 298 girls born in England and Wales in 2025
England and Wales 49thQuebec 57thSwitzerland 105th
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Every place
In 23 of the 40 official lists, among them England and Wales (49th), Quebec (57th) and Switzerland (105th).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 49th 2025 | 849 | 1 in 298 |
| Quebec province | 57th 2025 | 92 | about 1 in 283 |
| New South Wales state | 63rd 2025 | 109 | rank only |
| Queensland state | 72nd 2025 | 69 | rank only |
| South Australia state | 77th 2025 | 21 | rank only |
| Victoria state | 79th 2025 | 78 | rank only |
| Switzerland | 105th 2025 | 80 | 1 in 425 |
| The Netherlands | 160th 2025 | 95 | about 1 in 642 |
| Scotland | 164th 2025 | 25 | 1 in 716 |
| Italy | 170th 2024 | 138 | 1 in 1,298 |
| Ontario province | 184th 2024 | 74 | about 1 in 736 |
| British Columbia province | 187th 2023 | 16 | about 1 in 747 |
| Northern Ireland | 191st 2025 | 9 | 1 in 810 |
| Munich city | 201st 2025 | 6 | about 1 in 699 |
| Ireland | 213th 2025 | 20 | 1 in 1,056 |
| Austria | 381st 2025 | 13 | 1 in 2,748 |
| Sweden | 406th 2025 | 24 | about 1 in 1,674 |
| Poland | 498th 2025 | 4 | 1 in 29,947 |
| Berlin city | 528th 2023 | 7 | about 1 in 2,072 |
| Cologne city | 630th 2023 | 2 | about 1 in 3,072 |
| France | 1480th 2025 | 35 | 1 in 8,194 |
| Leipzig city | 344th 2025 | 2 | about 1 in 1,312 |
| Bonn city | 382nd 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 3,015 |
Rare, below the listed names: New Zealand, Rostock, Norway, Spain, Catalonia, Hungary, Slovenia and Israel.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Finland (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Estonia (top 25), Moscow (top 61), Turkey (top 30), Argentina (top 20) and Croatia (top 50).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Sources: Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (Data.NSW) (New South Wales); Queensland Registry of BDM (Qld Open Data Portal) (Queensland); SA Attorney-General's Department, Births, Deaths and Marriages (data.sa.gov.au) (South Australia); Registry of BDM Victoria (DataVic) (Victoria); Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); National Records of Scotland (Scotland); ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (Ontario); BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (British Columbia); NISRA (Northern Ireland); Landeshauptstadt München, Statistisches Amt (opendata.muenchen.de) (Munich); Central Statistics Office (CSO) (Ireland); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); Stadt Leipzig, Standesamt (opendata.leipzig.de) (Leipzig); Bundesstadt Bonn, Standesamt (opendata.bonn.de) (Bonn). How we count, and every source
About the name
Élodie is the French spelling, and in English the name is usually written Elodie. It is a French girls' name taken from Alodia, the name of a Spanish saint, so its story is one of a saint's name travelling north into France. No separate meaning is attested for Elodie itself.
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Said EL-oh-dee, it has three light syllables with the stress at the front, and it ends in the soft -ie sound that English speakers find familiar. Elodia is the closer Spanish-style form, and Melodie is a near neighbour in sound.
In France the name was at its height around 1988. Since then it has found a new audience in the English-speaking world: it is a top-50 name in England and Wales and well used in Quebec and New South Wales. It is also given in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy, and it is rising in most of the places where it appears.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- EL-oh-dee, 3 syllables
- Origin
- French and Spanish
- Other spellings
- Melodie
- Elodia
Counted together here: Élodie.
Etymology
French female given name, from the Spanish saint's name Alodia.
From the Wiktionary entry, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 15 of 18 regions, falling in 1.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 166 | 153 | 143 | 112 | 96 | 93 | 73 | 75 | 55 | 49 |
| Scotland | 223 | 275 | 178 | 248 | 241 | 236 | 179 | 250 | 120 | 164 |
| Northern Ireland | 432 | 361 | 298 | 281 | 237 | 218 | 171 | 212 | 191 | |
| Ireland | 187 | 365 | 411 | 247 | 229 | 228 | 254 | 183 | 197 | 213 |
| Ontario | 658 | 630 | 656 | 465 | 327 | 255 | 250 | 413 | 184 | |
| British Columbia | 413 | 415 | 415 | 331 | 390 | 446 | 264 | 187 | ||
| New South Wales | 97 | 73 | 63 | |||||||
| Victoria | 79 | |||||||||
| Queensland | 81 | 72 | ||||||||
| South Australia | 230 | 868 | 83 | 77 | ||||||
| Quebec | 39 | 42 | 37 | 49 | 47 | 52 | 53 | 62 | 59 | 57 |
| France | 694 | 818 | 1024 | 861 | 1226 | 1006 | 1224 | 1521 | 1292 | 1480 |
| The Netherlands | 391 | 389 | 346 | 391 | 259 | 335 | 287 | 154 | 160 | |
| Austria | 1916 | 1907 | 1874 | 1291 | 597 | 1050 | 825 | 552 | 381 | |
| Switzerland | 179 | 151 | 248 | 145 | 143 | 155 | 121 | 125 | 106 | 105 |
| Berlin | 1199 | 985 | 657 | 558 | 395 | 969 | 528 | |||
| Munich | 201 | |||||||||
| Rostock | 174 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 512 | 631 | 468 | 459 | 406 | |||||
| Italy | 216 | 194 | 185 | 198 | 141 | 135 | 140 | 147 | 170 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | 849 | 335.2 |
| 2024 | 55 | 802 | 310.9 |
| 2023 | 75 | 612 | 238.5 |
| 2022 | 73 | 649 | 246.3 |
| 2021 | 93 | 576 | 210.2 |
| 2020 | 96 | 527 | 196.3 |
| 2019 | 112 | 464 | 165.7 |
| 2018 | 143 | 360 | 124.9 |
| 2017 | 153 | 359 | 120.0 |
| 2016 | 166 | 339 | 110.4 |
| 2015 | 162 | 336 | 109.1 |
| 2014 | 172 | 316 | 103.0 |
| 2013 | 194 | 274 | 88.8 |
| 2012 | 236 | 211 | 65.5 |
| 2011 | 260 | 187 | 58.2 |
| 2010 | 297 | 159 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 324 | 139 | 44.4 |
| 2008 | 393 | 111 | 35.2 |
| 2007 | 469 | 84 | 27.4 |
| 2006 | 502 | 75 | 25.1 |
| 2005 | 509 | 68 | 23.6 |
| 2004 | 772 | 36 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 607 | 48 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 679 | 39 | 14.6 |
| 2001 | 671 | 38 | 14.2 |
| 2000 | 607 | 43 | 15.7 |
| 1999 | 952 | 22 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 1571 | 11 | 3.8 |
| 1997 | 2152 | 7 | 2.4 |
| 1996 | 1364 | 13 | 4.4 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
France since 1925
Half of the babies named Elodie in France since 1925 were born in or after 1988. First recorded in 1925. Her peak year there: 1988, at 3,202.2 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Elodie per 100,000 girls born in France, by five-year period. Her 1988 peak is averaged into its five-year period, so the line sits below it.
Sources: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (1900-2025), Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sister names for Elodie
1 in 1,278 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Elodie. Same first letter as Elodie.
1 in 1,408 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Elodie.
1 in 5,282 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Elodie. Same first letter as Elodie.
1 in 1,278 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Elodie. Ends in -ie, like Elodie.
1 in 3,567 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Elodie.
1 in 373 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Elodie. Same first letter as Elodie.
1 in 202 in Northern Ireland
Rose and fell with Elodie.
1 in 542 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Elodie.
1 in 424 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Elodie.
1 in 898 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Elodie.
Middle names for Elodie
1 in 107 in Northern Ireland
Elodie Charlotte
3-2 beats · initials EC
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 86 in Ireland
Elodie Sophie
3-2 beats · initials ES
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Elodie Grace
3-1 beats · initials EG
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 71 in Scotland
Elodie Olivia
3-4 beats · initials EO · Elodie slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 4 syllables. Elodie slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
1 in 102 in Ireland
Elodie Mia
3-2 beats · initials EM
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Elodie Ruby
3-2 beats · initials ER
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Elodie Rose
3-1 beats · initials ER
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 173 in Northern Ireland
Elodie Nora
3-2 beats · initials EN
Changes the beat after Elodie: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
Same style as Elodie
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 373 in Scotland
92% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 542 in Scotland
91% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 810 in Northern Ireland
91% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 636 in England and Wales
89% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 289 in Scotland
88% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 2,010 in England and Wales
88% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 438 in England and Wales
88% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
1 in 5,282 in Ireland
87% alike: moves with Elodie across countries and decades.
Famous people named Elodie
Élodie Bouchez, Élodie Yung, Élodie Fontan, Élodie Thomis, Élodie Ouédraogo, Élodie Clouvel, Elodie and Élodie Frégé.
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French actress born 1973
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French actress born 1981
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French actress (born 1987)
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French association football player born 1986
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Belgian athletics competitor (born 1981)
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French modern pentathlete born 1989
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Italian singer-songwriter and actress born 1990
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French actress and singer born 1982
People: Wikidata (CC0), linked to Wikipedia in this page's language when an article exists.
Questions about Elodie
4 questions, on how popular she is, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Elodie?
Her best rank is No. 49 in England and Wales in 2025, about 1 in 298 girls. She is in the published lists of 23 of our 40 regions.
How do you pronounce Elodie?
EL-oh-dee, with 3 syllables.
Is Elodie getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 15 of 18 regions, falling in 1.
Which sister names go with Elodie?
The deck's top five sisters for Elodie: Elise, Juliette, Estelle, Rosalie and Camille. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.