Entry № 2923 · Scottish origin

Elsie Elsie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Consecrated to God (Elsie de Wolfe; Elsie Dinsmore)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "consecrated to god (elsie de wolfe; elsie dinsmore)".

Elsie is the Scottish diminutive of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elisheba ("my God is my oath"). Lady Mendl (married Sir Charles Mendl in 1926); her Versailles villa was the setting for Salvador Dalí, Cole Porter, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Morgan Jr. residence. Elsie Roberts — American chef.

Consecrated to God. Elsie de Wolfe was the first professional female interior decorator in the world.

The name in its native script.

Elsie
Transliteration
Elsie
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛl.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Elsie stands.

Elsie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Elsies before her.

Real people
Elsie de Wolfe
American interior decorator.
1865 – 1950
Elsie Locke
New Zealand author.
1912 – 2001
In fiction
Elsie Dinsmore
Martha Finley's series.
1867
Elsie
Borden Dairy mascot.
1936

Names connected to Elsie.

The number behind Elsie.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elsie reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.