Elsa Girl
How popular is Elsa?
#1,104 girl name in 2025
216 baby girls were named Elsa in the US in 2025, making it the 1104th most popular girl name.
Elsa popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,104 for girls (▼ 166 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 216 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-67% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #486 in 2015, #915 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (1,140 girls) |
| Highest rank | #215 in 1895 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Elsa counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Elsa family of names ranked #945 for girls in 2025 (#817 the year before), with 224 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elsa | 216 | 96% |
| Elza | 8 | 4% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Elsa is most popular
Babies named Elsa per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wisconsin: 0.3 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Washington: 0.3 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- California: 0.3 per 1,000 (211 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.2 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (30 girls)
Elsa by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 537 | #229 |
| 1890s | 1,209 | #215 |
| 1900s | 864 | #309 |
| 1910s | 1,578 | #391 |
| 1920s | 1,466 | #515 |
| 1930s | 1,289 | #541 |
| 1940s | 1,306 | #589 |
| 1950s | 2,508 | #519 |
| 1960s | 2,746 | #552 |
| 1970s | 2,551 | #588 |
| 1980s | 2,083 | #697 |
| 1990s | 2,197 | #813 |
| 2000s | 3,359 | #683 |
| 2010s | 5,449 | #286 |
| 2020s | 1,568 | #915 |
Girl names about as popular as Elsa
Questions
- Is Elsa a boy or girl name?
- Elsa is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Elsa were girls.
- How popular is the name Elsa?
- 216 baby girls were named Elsa in the US in 2025, making it the 1104th most popular girl name.
- When was Elsa most popular?
- Elsa peaked in 2014, when 1,140 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #215 in 1895.
- How many people are named Elsa?
- 30,731 babies have been named Elsa in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,651 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 31.
- Where is Elsa most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Elsa was most common in Wisconsin, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.