Elsie (given name)

Elsie Johansson, writer and poet from Sweden, in Gothenburg 2008

Elsie is a feminine given name, a diminutive form of Elspeth, a Scottish version of Elizabeth. It has been in use in the Anglosphere as an independent name since the 1800s. ^[1] The name has increased in usage in English-speaking countries in recent years. ^[2]

It may refer to:

People

Given name

• Elsie Abbot (1907–1983), British civil servant
• Elsie Albert (born 1996), Papua New Guinean rugby league player
• Elsie Altmann-Loos (1899–1984), Austrian dancer
• Elsie Baker (1883–1971), American actress and singer
• Elsie Barge (1898–1962), American pianist
• Elsie Charles Basque (1916–2016), first Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia to earn a teacher's certificate
• Elsie Bertram (1912–2003), English bookseller
• Elsie Bowerman (1889–1973), British pioneering female barrister, suffragette, and Titanic survivor
• Elsie Bramell (1909–1985), Australian anthropologist
• Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British volunteer ambulance driver in World War I
• Elsie Cassels (1864–1938), Scottish-born naturalist and Canadian ornithologist
• Essie B. Cheesborough (1826–1905), American writer
• Elsie Cohen (1895–1972), British entrepreneur
• Elsie Cook, secretary for the Scottish Women's Football Association
• Elsie Cameron Corbett (1893–1977), British suffragist, volunteer ambulance driver World War I, and philanthropist
• Elsie Chamberlain (1910–1991), British minister
• Elsie Corlett (1902–1988), English golfer
• Elsie Dahlberg-Sundberg (1916–2005), Swedish sculptor
• Elsie Louisa Deacon (1897–1984), British railway draughtswoman
• Elsie Dohrmann (1875–1909), New Zealand scholar, teacher, and temperance campaigner
• Elsie Dubugras (1904–2006), Brazilian journalist
• Elsie Spicer Eells (1880–1963), American writer
• Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), American stage and film actress
• Elsie Fisher (born 2003), American actor
• Elsie Fox (c. 1900–1992), minor screenwriter in the 1930s, married to American novelist/screenwriter Paul Hervey Fox
• Elsie Herbold Froeschner (1913–2006), American scientific illustrator
• Elsie Gabriel, Indian environmentalist
• Elsie Gibbons (1903–2003), Canadian politician
• Elsie Giorgi (1911–1998), American physician
• Elsie Gledstanes (1891–1982), British artist
• Elsie Griffin (1895–1989), English opera singer
• Elsie Hall (1877–1976), Australian-born South African classical pianist
• Elsie Heiss, Australian indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader
• Elsie Higgon (1879–1969), English pharmacist
• Elsie Hodder (1886–1952), English actress and singer under the stage name Lily Elsie
• Elsie M. Hueffer (1876–1949), British translator
• Elsie Ao Ieong, Macau government minister
• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), innovative Scottish doctor
• Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter
• Elsie Jury (1910–1993), Canadian archaeologist
• Elsie S. Kanza, Tanzanian economist and diplomat
• Elsie May Kittredge (1870–1954), American botanist
• Elsie Caroline Krummeck (1913–1999), American artist and industrial designer
• Elsie Lefebvre (born 1979), Quebec politician
• Elsie Lessa (1912–2000), American-Brazilian journalist and writer
• Elsie Leung, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
• Elsie M. Lewis (1912–1992), first African American female historian
• Elsie Locke (1912–2001), New Zealand writer, historian, and activist in the feminism and peace movements
• Elsie Lyon, Canadian politician; see Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidates, 1953 Manitoba provincial election#Elsie Lyon (Fisher)
• Elsie Mackay (c.1893–1928), British actress, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died trying to fly across the Atlantic
• Elsie MacLeod, American actress
• Elsie Maréchal (1894–1969), English woman active in the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War
• Elsie Rosaline Masson (1890–1935), Australian photographer
• Elsie Mitchell (died 1945), American woman killed in Oregon by a Japanese balloon bomb during World War II; see Fire balloon#Single lethal attack
• Elsie Smeaton Munro (1880–1961), Scottish writer
• Elsie Murray (1878–1965), American psychologist
• Elsie Paitai (born 1963), New Zealand rugby union player
• Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist
• Elsie Payne (1927–2004), teacher and first indigenous Barbadian principal of Queen's College of Bridgetown
• Elsie Palmer Payne (1884–1971), American painter
• Elsie Dodge Pattee (1876–1975), American painter
• Elsie Pidgeon (1879–1956), Australian hospital matron
• Elsie Quinlan (1914–1952), Irish-born South African Dominican sister
• Elsie Reasoner Ralph (1878–1913), American war correspondent and sculptor
• Elsie Robinson (1993–1956), American syndicated columnist
• Elsie Shrigley (1899–1978), English vegan activist and co-founder of The Vegan Society
• Elsie Sigel (c.1890–1909), American murder victim
• Elsie Snowden, member of the Snowden Family Band, a 19th-century African American musical group
• Elsie Stevens (born 1907), British artist
• Elsie Sunderland, Canadian environmental scientist
• Elsie Suréna (born 1956), Haitian writer and photographer
• Elsie Toles (1888–1957), Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, professor, and author
• Elsie Tu (Traditional Chinese characters: 杜葉錫恩) (1913–2015), also known as Elsie Elliot, Hong Kong social activist and member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong
• Elsie Eleanor Verity (1894–1971), British motor engineer
• Elsie Wagg (1876–1949), English philanthropist
• Elsie Wayne (1932–2016), Canadian politician
• Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), British dietitian
• Elsie Jane Wilson (1890–1965), New Zealand-born cinema actress, director and writer in the United States
• Elsie Wingrove (1923–2016), Canadian baseball player
• Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), pioneering professional interior decorator in the United States
• Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (fl. 1914), British suffragette sisters
• Elsie Maud White (1889–1978), New Zealand artist
• Elsie Wright (1901–1988), Cottingley Fairies photographer and subject

Short for another name

• Elizabeth Elsie Carlisle (1896–1977), English singer
• Elizabeth Elsie MacGill (1905–1980), Canadian aeronautical engineer, first woman to earn an aeronautical engineering degree and "Queen of the Hurricanes" (fighter aircraft)
• Eliška Elsie Paroubek (1906–1911), Czech-American girl who was kidnapped and murdered

Fictional characters

• Elsie the Cow, an advertising mascot of the Borden Company
• Elsie, a main character in the 2019–2020 Sarah Andersen comic series Fangs
• Elsie, a supporting character in the video game Fields of Mistria
• Elsie, a main character in the Playhouse Disney animated television series Stanley
• Elsie Crimson, a supporting character from the manga and anime series Edens Zero
• Elsie Dinsmore, titular character in the Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley
• Elsie Dyck, a character from the 2020 Andrew Unger novel Once Removed
• Elsie Hooper, title character of the black and white horror serial of the same name, appearing in the UMass Daily Collegian
• Elsie Hughes, the housekeeper on the series Downton Abbey
• Elsie Hughes, in the television series Westworld played by Shannon Woodward
• Elsie Lappin, on the British soap opera Coronation Street in 1960, the first to speak on the series
• Elsie Tanner, on the British soap opera Coronation Street

See also

• Elzie E. C. Segar (1894–1938), American cartoonist, creator of Popeye

Notes

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 89. ISBN   0-19-861060-2.
2. Campbell, Mike. "Elsie". www.behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 21 December 2023.