Elsternwick is a residential suburb 9 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria.

The name is derived from "elster", the German word for magpie and the Anglo-Saxon "wick" meaning village. The area became known as Elsternwick from the late 1850s.

Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856. In 1861 a railway line was built from Melbourne to Brighton, via Elsternwick. A tramline was opened along Glenhuntly Road in 1889.