Elsa

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Short form of Elisabet and its variants [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

     
Els ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Elsa ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Finnish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Elsá ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Else ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Elsi ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Elsia ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Elsie ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Elsine ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian
Elssa ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Elssá ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Elssu ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Elsu ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Elsukka ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Elsy ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian Swedish
Helse ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Norwegian
Telse ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Älsa ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Swedish

See also Essi

Combinations

For combinations see ELS (name element)

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

17 April

Finland Finland

14 October

Norway Norway

17 April

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

14 October

Sweden Sweden

30 October

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Elsa
Accusative: Elsu
Dative: Elsu
Genitive: Elsu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1422 [1]

Namesakes

Elsa Brändström (1888 - 1948), Swedish philanthropist

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[4] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m1.png 21247 42087 0 1
Norway Norway[5] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 1493 3829 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 1055 n.a. 0 n.a
Finland Finland[7] Statimg f5.pngStatimg m0.png n.a. 28638 0 0
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend[4][6][5][7]:Name statistics for Elsa(f)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[5]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Elsa(f)


Sources: [4] [6] [5] [7]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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