Entry № 2895 · French origin

Elle Elle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ELL /

Gender

Girl

Origin

French

Meaning

"She / the (Elle Fanning; Elle Macpherson; the French magazine)"

Syllables

First recorded

Medieval (French)

The meaning

A name that means "she / the (elle fanning; elle macpherson; the french magazine)".

Elle is the French feminine third-person pronoun ("she, her") — also the definite article in some Romance dialects. A top-200 US baby name since 2018. "Elle" is also Reese Witherspoon's character in Legally Blonde (Elle Woods, 2001).

She / the. Elle magazine sells in 46 countries; Elle Fanning was the youngest Cannes juror ever at 21.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Elle

Transliteration: Elle
Pronunciation: / ɛl /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Elle stands.

Elle does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Elles before her.

Real people

Elle Fanning

American actress.

born 1998

Elle Macpherson

Australian supermodel.

born 1964

Elle King

American singer.

born 1989

In fiction

Elle Woods

Legally Blonde.

2001

Names connected to Elle.

Numerology

The number behind Elle.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elle reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.