Elsa — #938 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Elsa

The Social Security Administration has registered 30,490 babies named Elsa between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Elsa currently holds the #938 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 1,140 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Elsa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,449 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Elsa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,240 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Elsa in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Elsa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 30,490 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.