Elsy Popularity. In the U.S. in 2015, it ranked 3,584 in baby name popularity for girls with 43 occurrences. Less than 5 boys were given the name. In contrast, the year before it ranked 4,281 in baby name popularity for girls with 34 occurrences.
For other uses, see Girl with a Pearl Earring (disambiguation) . Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is an oil painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is a tronie of a girl with a headscarf and a pearl earring.
Van Gogh 'cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry'. New research casts doubt on popular theory that painter took razor to his ear after row with fellow artist Paul Gauguin. Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Photograph: Peter Barritt/Getty Images/SuperStock RM.