Elsy

#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births

Peak · girls
2020 · 135 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,832
since 1969

Elsy over time

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Rank among girls' names. Elsy has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,559, 2020girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#2,32678
2024#2,20386
2023#1,922103
2022#1,793114
2021#1,791113
2020#1,559135
2019#2,78460
2018#4,23733
2017#3,99637
2016#4,42332
2015#3,59543
2014#4,10336
2013#3,91838
2012#3,98838
2011#4,15135
2010#3,96138
2009#3,56145
2008#3,77942
2007#3,12555
2006#3,05455
2005#3,64640
2004#4,49230
2003#3,59039
2002#4,28029
2001#3,41739
2000#4,07930
1999#3,97029
1998#3,30137
1997#4,00727
1996#3,83128
1995#4,09925
1994#4,52122
1993#4,25724
1992#5,71816
1991#3,54030
1990#5,06018
1989#4,24822
1988#5,32115
1987#5,31214
1986#4,34718
1985#4,63516
1984#6,29110
1983#7,3128
1982#7,4698
1981#7,4098
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1978#8,5626
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five girls were named Elsy! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Elsy
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 123 spots since 2024 (#2,203#2,326)
  • 767 spots since 2020 (#1,559#2,326)
  • 1,269 spots since 2015 (#3,595#2,326)
Rise & fade · girls
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2020 at #1,559 (135 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,974
  • Highest: 1 in 11,974 girls born in 2020 were named Elsy (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Elsy (629) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s7#5,974 (1969)#5,974
1970s27#7,995 (1970)#8,701
1980s119#4,248 (1989)#5,816
1990s256#3,301 (1998)#4,230
2000s404#3,054 (2006)#3,702
2010s390#2,784 (2019)#3,916
2020s629#1,559 (2020)#1,932

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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