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.
His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s.