Meaning not yet researched.
Elsa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 216 in 2025. Its best rank was #215 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #215 in 1895; #1,104 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elsa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,104 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #215.
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Elsa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 216 girls in 2025. Peak: #215 in 1895 · most girls in one year: 1,140 (2014).
In 2025, 216 US girls were named Elsa, making it the 1,104th most common girls’ name of the year, down 166 places from #938 in 2024. That is 65 fewer than the 281 girls named Elsa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #215, reached in 1895. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,140, in 2014. For comparison, it was #486 in 2015 and #695 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elsa in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 20 babies with the name. In all, 30,731 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,449 babies named Elsa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,125 US girls were named Elsa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 477. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,441 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elsa ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #533 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elisa (47,804 babies since 1880) and Elza (2,942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ellsa, Elsah and Elssa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ellsa (21), Elsah (12), Elssa (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Elsa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 9 | #533 | #270 |
| Virginia | 13 | #582 | #561 |
| Arizona | 10 | #645 | #506 |
| Michigan | 11 | #701 | #447 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #739 | #597 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #762 | #268 |
| Alabama | 5 | #857 | #565 |
| California | 33 | #883 | #328 |
| New York | 16 | #955 | #399 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,102 | #377 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,152 | #669 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,182 | #804 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,192 | #743 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,560 | #558 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 216 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2024 | 281 | #938 | — | — |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2022 | 264 | #994 | — | — |
| 2021 | 276 | #951 | — | — |
| 2020 | 284 | #917 | — | — |
| 2019 | 350 | #791 | — | — |
| 2018 | 305 | #888 | — | — |
| 2017 | 425 | #686 | — | — |
| 2016 | 477 | #627 | — | — |
| 2015 | 658 | #486 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,140 | #286 | — | — |
| 2013 | 566 | #528 | — | — |
| 2012 | 542 | #549 | — | — |
| 2011 | 499 | #580 | — | — |
| 2010 | 487 | #603 | — | — |
| 2009 | 426 | #684 | — | — |
| 2008 | 413 | #720 | — | — |
| 2007 | 393 | #742 | — | — |
| 2006 | 350 | #785 | — | — |
| 2005 | 350 | #761 | — | — |
| 2004 | 308 | #813 | — | — |
| 2003 | 349 | #733 | — | — |
| 2002 | 283 | #824 | — | — |
| 2001 | 247 | #916 | — | — |
| 2000 | 240 | #911 | — | — |
| 1999 | 236 | #899 | — | — |
| 1998 | 200 | #999 | — | — |
| 1997 | 196 | #993 | — | — |
| 1996 | 228 | #870 | — | — |
| 1995 | 222 | #867 | — | — |
| 1994 | 227 | #864 | — | — |
| 1993 | 197 | #959 | — | — |
| 1992 | 229 | #863 | — | — |
| 1991 | 220 | #892 | — | — |
| 1990 | 242 | #815 | — | — |
| 1989 | 209 | #880 | — | — |
| 1988 | 170 | #974 | — | — |
| 1987 | 171 | #947 | — | — |
| 1986 | 199 | #837 | — | — |
| 1985 | 193 | #842 | — | — |
| 1984 | 216 | #750 | — | — |
| 1983 | 235 | #716 | — | — |
| 1982 | 206 | #787 | — | — |
| 1981 | 240 | #700 | — | — |
| 1980 | 244 | #699 | — | — |
| 1979 | 210 | #765 | — | — |
| 1978 | 225 | #703 | — | — |
| 1977 | 245 | #656 | — | — |
| 1976 | 269 | #597 | 5 | #5,869 |
| 1975 | 255 | #618 | — | — |
| 1974 | 254 | #613 | — | — |
| 1973 | 253 | #611 | 5 | #5,326 |
| 1972 | 263 | #606 | — | — |
| 1971 | 279 | #611 | — | — |
| 1970 | 298 | #588 | — | — |
| 1969 | 280 | #592 | — | — |
| 1968 | 243 | #616 | — | — |
| 1967 | 246 | #605 | — | — |
| 1966 | 295 | #552 | — | — |
| 1965 | 274 | #576 | — | — |
| 1964 | 282 | #590 | — | — |
| 1963 | 287 | #584 | — | — |
| 1962 | 275 | #603 | — | — |
| 1961 | 285 | #596 | — | — |
| 1960 | 279 | #594 | — | — |
| 1959 | 280 | #592 | 6 | #3,723 |
| 1958 | 287 | #586 | — | — |
| 1957 | 340 | #520 | — | — |
| 1956 | 309 | #527 | — | — |
| 1955 | 289 | #542 | — | — |
| 1954 | 248 | #566 | — | — |
| 1953 | 207 | #618 | — | — |
| 1952 | 216 | #592 | — | — |
| 1951 | 178 | #650 | — | — |
| 1950 | 154 | #695 | — | — |
| 1949 | 137 | #726 | — | — |
| 1948 | 138 | #717 | — | — |
| 1947 | 134 | #739 | — | — |
| 1946 | 113 | #772 | — | — |
| 1945 | 126 | #655 | — | — |
| 1944 | 119 | #686 | — | — |
| 1943 | 139 | #645 | — | — |
| 1942 | 136 | #643 | — | — |
| 1941 | 142 | #590 | — | — |
| 1940 | 122 | #640 | — | — |
| 1939 | 151 | #542 | — | — |
| 1938 | 125 | #611 | — | — |
| 1937 | 129 | #592 | — | — |
| 1936 | 130 | #580 | — | — |
| 1935 | 113 | #612 | — | — |
| 1934 | 110 | #636 | — | — |
| 1933 | 124 | #576 | — | — |
| 1932 | 130 | #577 | — | — |
| 1931 | 140 | #553 | — | — |
| 1930 | 137 | #586 | — | — |
| 1929 | 128 | #606 | — | — |
| 1928 | 158 | #557 | — | — |
| 1927 | 138 | #605 | — | — |
| 1926 | 136 | #609 | — | — |
| 1925 | 141 | #616 | — | — |
| 1924 | 140 | #635 | 5 | #4,537 |
| 1923 | 138 | #628 | — | — |
| 1922 | 149 | #588 | — | — |
| 1921 | 154 | #583 | — | — |
| 1920 | 184 | #516 | — | — |
| 1919 | 169 | #525 | — | — |
| 1918 | 173 | #534 | — | — |
| 1917 | 198 | #460 | — | — |
| 1916 | 201 | #446 | — | — |
| 1915 | 237 | #392 | — | — |
| 1914 | 166 | #412 | — | — |
| 1913 | 131 | #432 | — | — |
| 1912 | 120 | #429 | — | — |
| 1911 | 103 | #399 | — | — |
| 1910 | 80 | #446 | — | — |
| 1909 | 77 | #418 | — | — |
| 1908 | 93 | #372 | — | — |
| 1907 | 86 | #383 | — | — |
| 1906 | 84 | #369 | — | — |
| 1905 | 75 | #389 | — | — |
| 1904 | 75 | #379 | — | — |
| 1903 | 87 | #335 | — | — |
| 1902 | 91 | #326 | — | — |
| 1901 | 94 | #311 | — | — |
| 1900 | 102 | #335 | — | — |
| 1899 | 90 | #315 | — | — |
| 1898 | 111 | #292 | — | — |
| 1897 | 128 | #251 | — | — |
| 1896 | 129 | #251 | — | — |
| 1895 | 160 | #215 | — | — |
| 1894 | 137 | #227 | — | — |
| 1893 | 104 | #264 | — | — |
| 1892 | 142 | #216 | — | — |
| 1891 | 102 | #238 | — | — |
| 1890 | 106 | #238 | — | — |
| 1889 | 104 | #229 | — | — |
| 1888 | 87 | #250 | — | — |
| 1887 | 61 | #270 | — | — |
| 1886 | 59 | #271 | — | — |
| 1885 | 66 | #249 | — | — |
| 1884 | 51 | #273 | — | — |
| 1883 | 35 | #295 | — | — |
| 1882 | 29 | #330 | — | — |
| 1881 | 25 | #320 | — | — |
| 1880 | 20 | #369 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).