Is Elsie a stand alone name or a nn in your opinion?

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I love the name and have a difficult surname which I think it sounds ok with.

I want to use it as a stand alone name but couldn't if its seen more as a nn.

How do you think of it?

I love the name Elsie, it is my sisters name and I have always been jealous of it.

She has it short for Elspeth which is also beautiful.

I would also say standalone! My lovely nan was an Elsie, and we would have used it as a middle name had DC3 not been a boy

To me it's like Libby, or Eliza - can be used as a nn for Elizabeth / Elisabeth but works beautifully as a name in its own right too.

Pentagon just re-read properly - congratulations on your lovely new Elsie

another with a nan called Elsie, also given to my niece as a middle name. Its lovely, as is my nan, kinda sweet and graceful at the same time.

That's a lovely description of the name semirural

As I remember it, Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey is also an 'Elsie', and she's completely fabulous too

I would say it's a nick name. Sorry!