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How popular is the name Elsie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Elsies are alive today.
Elsie is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 10th in 2024 with 1,727 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1914, when around 13,100 babies were given the name, the 7th most popular that year. Elsie's popularity is double-peaked: strongest in the 1910s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 54,000 babies have been named Elsie in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Elsie you are most likely to meet is around 7 years old. Half of all Elsies born in England and Wales are between 8 and 74, and there are at least 46,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 14% chance that at least one of them will be called Elsie.
How many babies are named Elsie each year?
Where does Elsie rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Elsie most popular?
Elsie peaked in 1914, when around 13,100 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Elsie?
At least 46,000 people named Elsie born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Elsie?
Most living Elsies are between 8 and 74; the most common age is about 7.
Is Elsie becoming more or less popular?
Recovering: it has climbed back after a dip in the rankings.