Elspeth
2025 SSA
About Elspeth
Elspeth is one of those names that never quite made it out of the British Isles--particularly Scotland, but possesses a winningly childlike charm. Elspeth was used by Sir Walter Scott for several of his female characters.
Elspeth Huxley was a prolific Kenyan-born U.K. writer, best known for the autobiographical The Flame Trees of Thika--she was connected by marriage to the illustrous Huxley family.
A close cousin is Elsbeth, as in the recurring character Elsbeth Tascioni on The Good Wife. Embeth is a more distant relation.
Pronounced ELS-beth.
As of October 2026, Elspeth ranked #7600 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2437 in 1984.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Elspeth on lists
Famous Elspeths
- Elspeth Joscelin Huxley
British novelist
- Elspeth Ballantyne
Australian actress
- Elspeth Thompson
British gardener and writer
- Elspeth Howe
Baroness Howe of Idlicote, English life peer
- (Jean) Elspeth March
English actress
- Elspeth Hanson
English violist of the string quartet Bond
- Elspeth Attwooll
Scottish MEP
- Elspeth Denning
Australian Olympic field hockey player
- Elspeth MacGregor Cameron
Canadian biographer and poet
- Elspeth Gibson
English fashion designer
- Elspeth Hallsmith
birth name of Emma Smith, British novelist
Elspeth in pop culture
- Elspeth Gordie
character in Obernewtyn Chronicles
- Elspeth Tirel
from Magic: The Gathering
- Elspeth Noblin
character in Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
- Elspeth Spindle
main character in "The Shepherd King Duology"