Elsy
Elsy was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,341 among girls’ names; 1,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Elsy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elsy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Elsy mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Elsy is “a female given name”
From English Elsie.
/ˈelsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Elsy?
#2,341 among girls’ names, 2025
Elsy rose from #3,614 in 2015 to #2,341 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 48.5 per million.
135 babies in 2020, the peak
Elsy peaked in 2020, when 135 girls were given it, #1,563 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,341 | 48.5 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,206 | 53.1 |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,927 | 64.2 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,798 | 69.5 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,792 | 68.9 |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,563 | 83.5 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,793 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,260 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,017 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,455 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,614 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,127 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,947 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,007 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,168 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,979 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,580 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,797 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,137 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,062 | 28.9 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,660 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,525 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,611 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,305 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,435 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,097 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,000 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,314 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,040 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,862 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,128 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,566 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,290 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,799 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,554 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,112 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,276 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,400 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,372 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,399 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,690 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,428 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,499 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,679 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,602 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,652 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,858 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,756 | 3.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,639 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,352 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,141 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elsy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elsy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elsy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elsy, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,832 Americans ever recorded as Elsy. The median Elsy alive today is 14 years old; half are between 5 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,691 people named Elsy (4,664 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 275 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 602 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 903 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Elsy born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,035 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,648 | 1.1× |
Where Elsy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Elsy is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Elsy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 369,878 babies since 1880, Elsy is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 4,870 babies (1.6%), again the sixth 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 Elsy
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 Elsy and names like it
- Compare Elsy and ElsieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElsy peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elsy since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Elsy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Elsy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elsy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.