Elsie
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Elsie is also given to boys.
Pronounced EL-zee.
As of October 2026, Elsie ranked #123 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 1897, Nameberry popularity #93.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #334 | 1,005 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #386 | 848 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #340 | 980 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #299 | 1,092 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #277 | 1,192 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #250 | 1,288 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #233 | 1,269 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #222 | 1,345 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #188 | 1,562 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #163 | 1,756 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #155 | 1,901 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #123 | 2,236 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Elsie on lists
Famous Elsies
- Elsie Louise FergusonGirl
American actress
- Elsie JanisGirl
American singer
- Elsie Kate FisherGirl
American teen actress
- Elsie WindesGirl
American water polo player
- Elsie de WolfeGirl
American interior designer
- Elsie Jeanette OxenhamGirl
English children's author
- Elsie Eleanore WayneGirl
Canadian MP
- Elsie TuGirl
Hong Kong politician and activist
- Elsie LeungGirl
Hong Kong secretary of justice
- Elsie MackayGirl
British actress and aviatrix
- Elsie Mapuana SniffenGirl
birth name of Kayla Blake, American actress
- Elsie LacksGirl
daughter of genetic pioneer Henrietta Lacks
- ElsieGirl
Mae Blackburn, daughter of actress Verona Joseph and director Farren Blackburn
- Elsie May LarsonGirl
Kunkel (b. 1990), daughter of singer Nicolette Larson
- Elsie Morrison (b. 2008)Girl
daughter of singer James Morrison
- Elsie Marigold Gruffudd (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd and American,born British Alice Evans
- Elsie Cook (b. 2014)Girl
daughter of English cricket captain Alastair Cook
- Elsie Otter Pechenik (b. 2015)Girl
daughter of actress Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik
- Florence Elsie Ellis (b. 2008)Girl
daughter of actress Tamzin Outhwaite and Tom Ellis
- Sonia ElsieGirl
American Youtuber
Elsie in pop culture
- Elsie the CowGirl
advertising mascot for Borden dairy products
- Elsie HughesGirl
housekeeper on TV's "Downton Abbey"
- Elsie DinsmoreGirl
character in novels by Martha Finley
- Elsie TravillaGirl
daughter of character Elsie Dinsmore
- Elsie KettleGirl
character in "Queenie" by Jacqueline Wilson
- ElsieGirl
character in film "Gosford Park"
- ElsieGirl
nickname of Elucia de Lute Ima from "The World God Only Knows"
- Elsie TannerGirl
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- Elsie CarrGirl
character from the "What Katy Did Series"
- Elsie "Catty" FanshaweGirl
character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
- Also an English surname and essentially the modern form of the Old English Aelfsige = "elfGirl
victory"
- Elsie MarinaGirl
name of character from the film "The Prince and the Showgirl," portrayed by Marilyn Monroe