Given name
Elide
“warrior princess”
Elide is a feminine given name. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Elide goes back to a word meaning “warrior princess.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Elide through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 119
- 0 boys · 119 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 73 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 73 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 428 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.
Elide’s family of names
Elide may belong to the same name family as ELLIDE. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Elide
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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