Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eilish through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 356
- 0 boys · 356 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,626 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −45%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,626 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 410 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eilish’s family of names
In English usage, Eilish was borrowed from the Irish form Eilís. In English usage, Eilish has a related form in Éilís.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eilish
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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