Elsie
The 2025 national count puts Elsie at #123, and it is climbing. The peak was 1918, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Elsie carries
Elsie · Teutonic
“noble cheer”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Elsie’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Elsie, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Elsie since 1880
Elsie peaked in 1918 at #49; #123 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Elsie is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Elsie runs strongest in North Dakota at 0.85% in 2025, then Wyoming and South Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Elsie
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Edward
#224 in 2025 · Teutonic
Warren
#240 in 2025 · Teutonic
Walter
#252 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Louis
#249 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Esther
#119 in 2025 · Persian
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with E · Teutonic names · all names
About Elsie
Where does Elsie rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Elsie at #123, and it is climbing. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Elsie?
The reference we cite records “noble cheer”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Elsie?
Nearest by the published recipe: Edward, Warren and Walter. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Elsie’s free Name Kit
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