Girls' name · peaked in 1895

Elsa name popularity since 1925

25,773 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Elsa. Half of them were born in 1988 or earlier, so the typical Elsa is about 38 years old in 2026. Elsa peaked in 1895 as the #215 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 25,773; Named Elsa, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1895; #215 for girls that year
Typical age: About 38; Median birth year 1988
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,104 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 25,757 girls · 16 boys
Most popular in: Texas; 2.79× its national share

Peak year is the year Elsa made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Elsa births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 2014. Measured as a share of all babies, Elsa peaked earlier, in 1895.

Fastest rise: Between 2009 and 2014, Elsa became 2.8× more common, from 1 in 4,310 baby girls to 1 in 1,570.
Steepest fall: Between 2014 and 2019, its share of baby girls fell by 67%, from 1 in 1,570 to 1 in 4,800.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Elsa's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Elsa.

Decade by decade

Babies named Elsa in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	701	0	–
1930s	1,289	0	#612
1940s	1,306	0	#655
1950s	2,508	6	#542
1960s	2,746	0	#576
1970s	2,551	10	#618
1980s	2,083	0	#842
1990s	2,197	0	#867
2000s	3,359	0	#761
2010s	5,449	0	#486
2020–25	1,568	0	#1,104

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

21.4% of babies named Elsa from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Elsa is most popular

The index compares Elsa's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Elsa.

State	Index	Babies
Texas	2.79×	4,682
California	2.28×	5,157
Arizona	1.90×	526
Minnesota	1.76×	685
Washington	1.60×	570

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Elsa's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Elsa.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Elsa (1895).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data