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.