Elsie
Elsie is ranked 155th among girls in 2024 (1,901 births). Its best rank was 31st, in 1896–1897.
- Rank in 2024
- #155up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,9010.12% of girls
- Peak year
- 19185,194 births
- Best rank
- #31first in 1896
- Since 1880
- 187,819people given the name
The story in the numbers
187,819 girls have been named Elsie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 5,194 births — 0.45% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 334 → 155).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 54 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Elsie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6,648 | |
| 1890s | 16,375 | |
| 1900s | 18,452 | |
| 1910s | 39,274 | |
| 1920s | 42,098 | |
| 1930s | 22,345 | |
| 1940s | 11,223 | |
| 1950s | 5,356 | |
| 1960s | 2,563 | |
| 1970s | 1,296 | |
| 1980s | 1,173 | |
| 1990s | 1,456 | |
| 2000s | 2,594 | |
| 2010s | 9,133 | |
| 2020s | 7,833 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Elsie was the 49th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Elsie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ednapeak 1918
- Almapeak 1918
- Selmapeak 1918
- Estapeak 1920
- Agnespeak 1918
- Vivapeak 1921
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Albertinepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.