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Girl's name · #1104 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Elsa is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1895, when it ranked #215. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 31,000 girls since 1880, ranked #1104 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
US births of Elsa rose from 566 in 2013 to 1,140 in 2014, the year after Disney’s Frozen introduced its ice queen. Births fell back to 658 in 2015.
See where Elsa is more common.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 21 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Elsa is especially popular in Sweden.
#5 in Sweden (2025) · #13 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #20 in Finland (Finnish-sp.) (2025) · #89 in Spain (2024) · #134 in France (2025) · #134 in Norway (2025) · #244 in Belgium (2025) · #251 in Austria (2025) · #373 in Switzerland (2025) · #402 in Scotland (2025) · #643 in Ireland (2025) · #661 in Ecuador (2025) and 4 more.
Among 1,164 notable people named Elsa:
Entertainers appear 1.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (1902–1986).
Similar names: Elisabeth · Mollie · Elsie · Luisa · Marion · Elia
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