Elsie

Not so long ago, Elsie might have been on a list of Names Least Likely to Succeed--but look at her now! She entered the UK Top 100 last year at Number 87, and in the US she's now in the Top 500, having returned to the list in 2005 after a thirty-year hiatus.

Elsie was a popular name at the end of the nineteenth century until its image was damaged in this country by the association with Elsie the Borden cow. But it's rising now on the heels of Ella and Ellie, suddenly sounding fresh and frisky. Singer James Morrison picked it for his baby girl. Another youthful bearer is actress Elsie Kate Fisher, the voice of Agnes in Despicable Me.