Élsie
given name · Latin script
Élsie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.
- SESweden1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Élsie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 441 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Elsie in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Élsie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #313 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Elsie | 82 |
| US United States | #565 | 43,606 | 1 in 7.6K | 43K | Elsie | 441 |
| ZA South Africa | #179 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Elsie | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | #496 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1.7K | Elsie | 169 |
| IT Italy | #945 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 1 | Elsie | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8,381 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.4K | Elsie | 43 |
| CU Cuba | #30 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Elsie | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,796as Elsi | 1 in 2K | 3.7K | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Élsie mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Élsie a male or female name?
- Élsie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Élsie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Élsie in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elsie.
- Where is Élsie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Élsie is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Élsie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 43,606 people named Élsie in 2020, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Élsie compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Élsie is the 313th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9lsieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Élsie” — the 313th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.