Elsie

Where Elsie comes from

From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.
— Wiktionary's entry for Elsie
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #78 among girls — 301 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Elsie Janis born
    American actress
  3. 1896
    Peak, #31
    1,878 babies named Elsie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2003
    Elsie Fisher born
    American actor
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #123 after sinking to #1,328 in 1996.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
Namesakes
  • Elsie Fisher · American actor, born 2003
  • Elsie Janis · American actress, 1889–1956
  • Elsie Ferguson · American actress, 1883–1961
  • Elsie de Wolfe · American actress and interior decorator, 1865–1950
  • Elsie Clews Parsons · American anthropologist, 1875–1941

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.