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Elsbeth

#7,232 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Elisabeth

Elsbeth has been given to 752 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #7,232 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Elsbeth, 2025

1 in 221,000

Elsbeth over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elsbeth: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elisabeth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elsbeth means

Elsbeth is a form of Elisabeth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elsbeth → Elisabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Origin, language, and formation

Elsbeth is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 752 girls were recorded with the name Elsbeth between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,373 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,526 in 2020 to #7,232 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,170 in 2015 to #7,232 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Elsbeth?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,232
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elsbeth sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elsbeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elsbeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elsbeth was born before 1960 — so the typical Elsbeth is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
421
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Choose a decade

1980s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Elsbeth rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+8,746
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,294
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,938
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 1983 (20)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,373
1912

Spellings of Elsbeth

Elsbeth is not the most common spelling — Elisabeth is, with 84.4% against Elsbeth's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elsbeth is used

Across 1910–2025, Elsbeth was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 923,941 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elsbeth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elsbeth around the world

Where Elsbeth ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #2,808
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1945–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elsbeth by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,232
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,294
Best rank ever
#1,373
1912
Peak year
1983
20 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
752
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Elsbeth

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Elsbeth

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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