Else

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Danish and Low German short form of Elisabet ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}, probably via Elsef ^[6]

Related Names

See Elsa

Name Days

Finland

14 October

Norway

17 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

14 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1873 ^[6]

Namesakes

Else Kleen-Möller (1882-1968), Swedish journalist and author

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[7]		23755	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[8]		3629	13270	0	0
Sweden[9]		1593	3080	0	1
Finland[10]		n.a.	2754	n.a	1
#: 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^{[9][7][8][10]}:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[8]:

Sources: ^{[9] [7] [8] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
3. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
5. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
6. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi