Elsworth
Elsworth was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 829 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elsworth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elsworth?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,549, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1917, the peak
Elsworth peaked in 1917, when 40 boys were given it, #1,045 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #6,549 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,725 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,676 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,240 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,779 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,891 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,686 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,298 | 3.3 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,321 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 6 | #3,477 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,906 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,838 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,096 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,088 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,721 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,281 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,823 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,516 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,689 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,302 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,961 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,727 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,204 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,847 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,743 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,700 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,164 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,806 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,936 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,738 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,955 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,769 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,494 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,989 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,356 | 26.6 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,676 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,506 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,917 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,366 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,245 | 31.2 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,239 | 31.8 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,240 | 31.9 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,274 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,355 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,045 | 43.2 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,164 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,276 | 31.8 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,631 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,274 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,558 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,064 | 48.7 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,236 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,324 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,263 | 38.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,295 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,290 | 37.8 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,208 | 39.9 |
| 1887 | 8 | #704 | 78.9 |
| 1883 | 6 | #825 | 57.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #868 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 7 | #729 | 69.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Elsworth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elsworth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elsworth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elsworth, and how old are they?
An estimated 109 Americans named Elsworth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 67 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Elsworth (5 women and girls, 251 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
How common is the spelling Elsworth?
Elsworth is a less common spelling of Ellsworth: SSA has recorded 829 Elsworth and 7,337 Ellsworth since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,166 babies since 1880, Elsworth is the second most given (10% of them).
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 Elsworth
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Manford | 1,479 |
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 Elsworth and names like it
- Compare Elsworth and EllsworthBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sElsworth peaked in 1917.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elsworth since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Elsworth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Elsworth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.