Elsbeth
Elsbeth was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,232 among girls’ names; 752 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elsbeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elsbeth mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Elsbeth is “a diminutive of the female given name Elisabeth”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elsbeth?
#7,232 among girls’ names, 2025
Elsbeth rose from #12,170 in 2015 to #7,232 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 9.3 per million.
20 babies in 1983, the peak
Elsbeth peaked in 1983, when 20 girls were given it, #3,852 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,232 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,978 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,880 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,623 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,413 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,526 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,671 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,389 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,121 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,170 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,609 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,176 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,563 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,404 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,789 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,043 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,965 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,900 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,813 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,328 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,369 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,863 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,072 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,106 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,315 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,239 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,826 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,583 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,050 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,266 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,890 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,942 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,281 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,765 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,900 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,852 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,218 | 10.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,325 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,704 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,155 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,799 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,391 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,808 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,895 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,162 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,780 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,428 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,986 | 7.2 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,469 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,972 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,772 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,751 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,766 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,331 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,258 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,570 | 9.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,899 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,630 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,547 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,466 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,463 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,194 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,674 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,595 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,191 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,478 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,258 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,641 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,929 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,177 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,124 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,392 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,135 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,069 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,548 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,958 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,873 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,865 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,533 | 11.5 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,981 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,392 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,373 | 28.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,309 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,038 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elsbeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elsbeth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elsbeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elsbeth, and how old are they?
An estimated 453 Americans named Elsbeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 17 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 757 people named Elsbeth (757 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 48,989 babies since 1880, Elsbeth is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 297 babies (5.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elsbeth
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elsbeth and names like it
- Compare Elsbeth and ElisabethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sElsbeth peaked in 1983.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elsbeth since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Elsbeth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Elsbeth.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Elsbeth alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.