Elsie
Top 1000
About Elsie
Elsie is a sweet vintage nickname-name turned modern star. After a 30-year hiatus, Elsie started climbing the US popularity list 20 years ago and is still headed for the top.
In its native Britain, Elsie is even more popular, ranking in the Top 20. One reason for Elsie's popularity: She makes a fresh, charming honor name for all those grandma Elizabeths. .
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 and Ioan Gruffudd has an adorably named little Elsie Marigold. Another youthful bearer is actress Elsie Kate Fisher, the voice of Agnes in Despicable Me.
Pronounced EL-zee.
As of October 2026, Elsie ranked #123 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 1897, Nameberry popularity #69.
Editor's take: The name Elsie is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "pledged to God".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #334 | 1,005 | 562.6 |
| 2015 | #386 | 848 | 475 |
| 2016 | #340 | 980 | 553 |
| 2017 | #299 | 1,092 | 632.5 |
| 2018 | #277 | 1,192 | 700.7 |
| 2019 | #250 | 1,288 | 767.4 |
| 2020 | #233 | 1,269 | 785 |
| 2021 | #222 | 1,345 | 819.7 |
| 2022 | #188 | 1,562 | 952.4 |
| 2023 | #163 | 1,756 | 1,094.4 |
| 2024 | #155 | 1,901 | 1,173.3 |
| 2025 | #123 | 2,236 | 1,391.2 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Elsie.
- Maisie
- Mae
- Ada
- Willa
- Madaline
- Margot
- Jeana
- Millie
- Nora
- Sadie
- Cora
- Georgia
- Eliza
- Eloise
- Camillia
- Pippa
- Mabel
- Etta
- Minni
- Vera
Elsie on lists
Famous Elsies
- Elsie Louise Ferguson
American actress
- Elsie Janis
American singer
- Elsie Kate Fisher
American teen actress
- Elsie Windes
American water polo player
- Elsie de Wolfe
American interior designer
- Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
English children's author
- Elsie Eleanore Wayne
Canadian MP
- Elsie Tu
Hong Kong politician and activist
- Elsie Leung
Hong Kong secretary of justice
- Elsie Mackay
British actress and aviatrix
- Elsie Mapuana Sniffen
birth name of Kayla Blake, American actress
- Elsie Lacks
daughter of genetic pioneer Henrietta Lacks
- Elsie
Mae Blackburn, daughter of actress Verona Joseph and director Farren Blackburn
- Elsie May Larson
Kunkel (b. 1990), daughter of singer Nicolette Larson
- Elsie Morrison (b. 2008)
daughter of singer James Morrison
- Elsie Marigold Gruffudd (b. 2013)
daughter of Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd and American,born British Alice Evans
- Elsie Cook (b. 2014)
daughter of English cricket captain Alastair Cook
- Elsie Otter Pechenik (b. 2015)
daughter of actress Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik
- Florence Elsie Ellis (b. 2008)
daughter of actress Tamzin Outhwaite and Tom Ellis
- Sonia Elsie
American Youtuber
Elsie in pop culture
- Elsie the Cow
advertising mascot for Borden dairy products
- Elsie Hughes
housekeeper on TV's "Downton Abbey"
- Elsie Dinsmore
character in novels by Martha Finley
- Elsie Travilla
daughter of character Elsie Dinsmore
- Elsie Kettle
character in "Queenie" by Jacqueline Wilson
- Elsie
character in film "Gosford Park"
- Elsie
nickname of Elucia de Lute Ima from "The World God Only Knows"
- Elsie Tanner
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- Elsie Carr
character from the "What Katy Did Series"
- Elsie "Catty" Fanshawe
character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Also an English surname and essentially the modern form of the Old English Aelfsige = "elf
victory"
- Elsie Marina
name of character from the film "The Prince and the Showgirl," portrayed by Marilyn Monroe