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Elsa
World map showing the countries where the names Elsa or Elza are popular. Any color means the name is among the 100 most popular names either in the population or among newborns.
Elsa is a female name mostly used in the Scandinavian countries.
Provenance
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Originally Elsa was simply a short form for the biblical name Elisabeth and some of its variants: Elisabet, Elisabetta and Elizabeth.[1]
The first recorded mentions of the name were in Sweden at the 15th century. The name became generally used after the 19th century.[1]
Variants
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Eli
Elis
Elise
Eliza
Ella
Elle
Else
Elsie
Elys
Elza
Ilsa
Ilse
Els
Statistics
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After the release of Disney's Frozen at the end of 2013, in which a main character is named Elsa, the name became more popular in different countries across the world. In the Faroe Islands and Sweden the name was in the top 10 baby names before the film was released, and became the most popular name afterwards, in 2014 and 2015.[1]
People
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Duchess Elsa of Württemberg (1876–1936)
Elsa Benítez (born 1977), Mexican model
Elsa Bienenfeld (1877-1942), Austrian music historian and music critic
Elsa Borg (1826–1909), Swedish social worker
Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish philanthropist
Elsa Beata Bunge (1734–1819), Swedish botanist
Elsa Burckhardt-Blum (1900–1974), Swiss painter
Elsa Castillo (born 1963), Venezuelan teacher and trade unionist
Elsa Cayo (born 1951), Peruvian-born filmmaker, and photographer
Elsa Charretier (born 1989), French comic book artist and writer
Elsa Patricia Galarza Contreras (born 1963), Peruvian economist
Elsa Ehrich (1914–1948), German Nazi SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
Elsa Einstein (1876–1936), German, Albert Einstein's second wife
Elsa Eschelsson (1861–1911), first Swedish woman doctor in law
Elsa Fougt (1744–1826), Swedish publisher
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), German artist/poet
Elsa García (gymnast) (born 1990), Mexican artistic gymnast
Elsa Giöbel-Oyler (1882–1979), Swedish painter
Elsa Goveia (1925–1980), Guyanese social historian and academic
Elsa Gye (1881–1943), suffragette
Elsa Hosk (born 1988), Swedish model
Elsa Jacoby (1910–1994), Australian actress and soprano
Elsa Jacquemot (born 2003), French tennis player
Elsa Kazi (1884–1967), German-Pakistani writer, poet, composer, musician, and painter
Elsa María Kristínardóttir (born 1989), Icelandic chess player
Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), English-American actress, probably best known for playing the Bride of Frankenstein
Elsa Leviseur (1931–2023), South African-born American architect.
Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette (1874–1944), Swedish writer and princess of Persia
Elsa Lunghini (born 1973), French singer
Elsa Majimbo (born 2001), Kenyan comedienne
Elsa Martinelli (1935–2017), Italian actress and former fashion model
Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963), American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess
Elsa Morante (1912–1985), Italian novelist
Elsa Oseguera (born 1992), Honduran journalist
Elsa Pataky (born 1976), Spanish actress, model, and film producer
Elsa Peretti (1940–2021), Italian jewelry designer
Elsa Ratassepp (1893–1972), Estonian actress
Elsa Raven (1929–2020), American actress
Elsa Redmond, American archaeologist
Elsa Laula Renberg (1877–1931), Sami activist and politician
Elsa Salazar Cade (born 1952), American entomologist/educator
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), Italian fashion designer of the 1920s and 1930s
Elsa Maria Sylvestersson (1924–1996), Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer
Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), French writer
Elsa Danson Wåghals (1885–1977), Swedish visual artist
Elsa Wilkin-Ambrister, Saint Kitts and Nevis diplomat
Elsa Zylberstein (born 1968), French actress
Fictional characters
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Elsa (Frozen), from Disney's animated film Frozen
Elsa (Once Upon a Time), from the ABC television series Once Upon a Time
Elsa (Symphogear), a character in the anime series Symphogear
Elsa Bloodstone, character from Marvel Comics
Elsa of Brabant, heroine of the Wagnerian opera Lohengrin
Elsa Dutton, character from television series 1883
Baroness Elsa von Schraeder, from the film and stage show The Sound of Music
Elsa Schneider, from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Elsa Cleeg, of Kim Possible
Elsa Carrington, character from Secret Agent
Elsa von Frankenstein, wife of the titular Son of Frankenstein
Elsa Frankenstein, daughter of the brother of the Son of Frankenstein, appearing in both The Ghost of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Elsa van Helsing, from Frankenweenie
Elsa Granhiert, character from Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
Elsa de Sica, from the manga/anime Gunslinger Girl
Elsa La Conti, from the video game series Arcana Heart
Elsa Lichtmann, from the L.A. Noire
Elsa Shivers from I Know What You Did Last Summer
Elsa Mars, of American Horror Story: Freak Show, portrayed by Jessica Lange
Elsa Tilsley, in the British soap opera Coronation Street
Exelsa, formerly Elsa, from the sitcom La familia P. Luche
Elsa, from Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Elsa, from Jojo Rabbit
Elsa Gardner, from Atypical
Elsa, from The Fundamentals of Caring
Elsa, one of the main characters in Armour of God II: Operation Condor
Elsa, a Pteranodon from We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Other
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Elsa the Lioness, subject of the book and film Born Free
Hurricane Elsa, a Category 1 Atlantic hurricane in 2021
References
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^ abcNamepediA Blog – The Real Elsa, Retrieved 7 July 2016.
External links
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Wiktionary – Elsa
NamepediA Blog – The Real Elsa
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World map showing the countries where the names Elsa or Elza are popular. Any color means the name is among the 100 most popular names either in the population or among newborns.
Name listThis page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.