Elši
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Elši is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Elsie, though it may be also be a Finnish diminutive form of Elsa.
- FIFinland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 17K
- SESweden1 in 1.2Kas Elsie
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elši 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
43,606 named Elsie, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Elsie in US United States.
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 English Elsie, though it may be also be a Finnish diminutive form of Elsa.
Sources 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Elši 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 43,606as Elsie | 1 in 7.6K | 43K | Elsie | 17 |
| SE Sweden | 8,381as Elsie | 1 in 1.2K | 8.4K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 2,796 | 1 in 2K | 3.7K | — | 1 |
| VE Venezuela | 1,714 | 1 in 17K | 1.7K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 1,072as Elsie | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 768as Elsie | 1 in 6.6K | 768 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 137as Elsie | 1 in 5.5K | 137 | — | — |
43,606 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Elši mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Elsie, though it may be also be a Finnish diminutive form of Elsa. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Elši a male or female name?
- Elši 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 Elši have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Elsie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Elši most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elši is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Elši?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,796 people named Elši, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/el%C5%A1iThe 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, “Elši”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.