Girl

Elzie

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#7,236
15 girls
2015
#15,054
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Elzie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #959 in 1891.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #959 in 1891; #7,236 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Elzie in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#7,236 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1891, at #959.

Babies in 2025
15
Since 1880
4,531
Years on record
127

Babies named Elzie, every year since 1880

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Girls Boys

Elzie: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #959 in 1891 · most girls in one year: 25 (1919).

About the name Elzie

In 2025, 15 US girls were named Elzie, making it the 7,236th most common girls’ name of the year, up 6,752 places from #13,988 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 6 girls named Elzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #959, reached in 1891. The most girls given the name in a single year was 25, in 1919. For comparison, it was #15,054 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Fewer than five US boys were named Elzie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #352, reached in 1891. The most boys given the name in a single year was 109, in 1917. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,053 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Elzie in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 13 babies. In all, 4,531 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,032 babies named Elzie.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US girls were named Elzie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Elsie (190,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Elzy, Alzie and Elze are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Elzy (396), Alzie (31), Elze (6).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Elzie in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202515#7,236——
20246#13,988——
202311#9,1726#11,236
202216#7,072——
20219#10,5245#12,694
20207#12,533——
20197#12,851——
20186#14,3339#8,355
20167#13,326——
20156#15,054——
2011——6#11,250
2010——6#11,164
2005——5#11,972
2004——8#8,365
2003——6#9,958
2000——7#8,471
1997——5#9,719
1994——5#9,252
1990——8#6,009
1989——8#5,805
1988——7#5,963
1986——5#7,048
1985——11#3,876
1984——9#4,303
1982——8#4,726
1981——10#3,933
1980——12#3,478
1979——5#6,346
1978——7#4,689
1977——10#3,684
1976——8#4,125
1975——16#2,565
1974——13#2,852
1973——12#2,902
1972——6#4,605
1971——10#3,212
1970——21#1,955
1969——17#2,072
1968——16#2,053
1967——21#1,724
1966——16#1,987
1965——13#2,299
1964——20#1,811
1963——21#1,753
1962——20#1,827
1961——21#1,790
1960——25#1,631
1959——17#1,996
1958——35#1,310
19577#5,04934#1,350
1956——25#1,578
1955——29#1,431
1954——35#1,279
1953——39#1,196
1952——35#1,253
1951——36#1,224
1950——45#1,053
1949——34#1,233
1948——38#1,165
1947——34#1,261
1946——46#1,006
1945——41#1,001
1944——48#920
19439#3,31544#1,009
1942——46#988
19416#4,09843#977
19408#3,29852#877
1939——49#894
19388#3,26547#922
19377#3,55243#960
19366#3,83053#838
1935——65#769
19346#3,95644#959
19339#2,95260#789
193214#2,27852#896
193110#2,83563#791
19305#4,75076#722
192912#2,62672#746
192816#2,21889#666
19278#3,64688#693
192617#2,19090#666
192516#2,31481#718
192418#2,16683#726
192318#2,11285#702
192220#1,97693#667
192116#2,317100#643
19209#3,414101#628
191925#1,61494#626
191823#1,71099#618
191720#1,794109#565
191617#1,97294#600
191522#1,58689#611
191419#1,50181#548
191315#1,54657#582
191216#1,37443#639
191114#1,26033#515
191017#1,08430#514
19097#1,82320#598
190811#1,28627#478
190711#1,23418#598
19068#1,46124#457
190510#1,25819#534
190412#1,06513#655
1903——22#437
19028#1,35623#428
190110#1,08518#457
19006#1,78920#538
18996#1,46513#560
18987#1,41212#645
18975#1,62715#524
18965#1,65614#562
1895——10#708
18946#1,40122#401
18935#1,49419#420
1892——16#501
18919#95924#352
18908#1,02922#378
1889——8#738
1888——16#489
1887——13#498
18865#1,15614#496
18855#1,08917#445
18845#1,07416#474
1883——12#536
1882——9#667
1881——7#731
1880——13#509

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).