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Elsa

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Short form (also German) of Elisabet and its variants [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Ehlsa ♀ Swedish
Ellsa ♀ Swedish
Ellsy ♀
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Ellza ♀ Swedish
Elsa ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Elsá ♀
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 Sami
Else ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Elsi ♀
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Elsí ♀
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 Icelandic
Elsia ♀
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Elsie ♀
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 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Elssa ♀
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Elssá ♀
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 Sami
Elsse ♀
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 Danish Norwegian
Elße ♀
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Elssu ♀
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Elsu ♀
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Elsy ♀
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Elsý ♀
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 Faroese Icelandic
Elza ♀
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Elze ♀
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Älsa ♀
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 Swedish

See also Êlise, Els, Elser, Elsina, Elsukka, Erza, Essi, Helse, Îlse, Telse

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Elsuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Elsudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see ELS (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elsa
Genitive: Elsas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Elsa
Accusative: Elsu
Dative: Elsu
Genitive: Elsu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elsa
Genitive: Elsan
Partitive: Elsaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Elsa
Accusative: Elsu
Dative: Elsu
Genitive: Elsu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elsa
Genitive: Elsas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elsa
Genitive: Elsas

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

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Elsa Beskow (née Maartman, 11 February 1874 – 30 June 1953), Swedish author and illustrator of children's books
  • Elsa Laula Renberg (née Elsa Laula, 29 November 1877 – 22 July 1931), Sámi activist and politician
  • Elsa Brändström (26 March 1888 - 4 March 1948), Swedish philanthropist
  • Elsa Judith Elisa Gress (17 January 1919 – 18 July 1988), Danish essayist, novelist and dramatist

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[14]
21142 46603 21142 46595 0 8
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 32672
n.a.
 32672 0 0
Denmark Denmark[15]
886
n.a.
 886
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
493 648
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
2968
n.a.
 2968
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Elsa (f) Sources: [14][15][12][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Elsa (f) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Elsa (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Elsa (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Elsa (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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