girl's name

Elsi

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 851

Scotland

#826

2024 births

Elsi is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 17 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2022, when 29 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 195,046 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1986.

Elsi over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1980s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Elsi by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1980s 21
1990s 80
2000s 84
2010s 128
2020s (to 2025) 121

How popular is Elsi?

In 2025, Elsi was given to 17 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Elsi is used

Scotland #826 3 in 2024
England & Wales #1,001 34 in 2025
France #6,100 5 in 2018
United States #6,583 17 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Elsi

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Elsi also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Elsi over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Elsi

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Elsi — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Elsi

How popular is the name Elsi?

In 2025, Elsi was given to 17 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Elsi a girl's or a boy's name?

Elsi is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Elsi most popular?

Elsi peaked in 2022, when 29 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Elsi a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Elsi currently ranks #826 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.