Meaning not yet researched.
Elsy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,563 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,563 in 2020; #2,341 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elsy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,341 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,563.
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Elsy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,563 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 135 (2020).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Elsy, making it the 2,341st most common girls’ name of the year, down 135 places from #2,206 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 86 girls named Elsy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,563, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #3,614 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elsy in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 7 babies. In all, 1,832 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 629 babies named Elsy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 791 US girls were named Elsy; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Elsy ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,035 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elsie (190,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ilsy and Elcy 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ilsy (15), Elcy (5).
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 Elsy 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,035 | #2,205 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,648 | #2,671 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2023 | 103 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2020 | 135 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,456 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,949 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,309 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,571 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,117 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,405 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,377 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,402 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,430 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,501 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,681 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,604 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,655 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,860 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,758 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,641 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,353 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,143 | — | — |
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).