Elsy
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 135 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,832since 1969
Elsy over time
Rank among girls' names. Elsy has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 |
| 2023 | #1,922 | 103 |
| 2022 | #1,793 | 114 |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 |
| 2020 | #1,559 | 135 |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2020 at #1,559 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 34.3% of all girls named Elsy (629) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 27 | #7,995 (1970) | #8,701 |
| 1980s | 119 | #4,248 (1989) | #5,816 |
| 1990s | 256 | #3,301 (1998) | #4,230 |
| 2000s | 404 | #3,054 (2006) | #3,702 |
| 2010s | 390 | #2,784 (2019) | #3,916 |
| 2020s | 629 | #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.
Elsy in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,839 of them was named Elsy, which outranked 87.6% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,178Violett87
- #2,178Wesley87
- #2,178Zaveah87
- #2,203Elsy86
- #2,203Acelynn86
- #2,203Debanhi86
- #2,203Doris86
- #2,218Alanah85
- #2,218Azora85
- #2,218Callahan85
Tied with 14 names at #2,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.