Elsa
Elsa is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a variant of the female given name Elisabeth . Elsa comes from Swedish.
distribution
In the last years of the 19th century, the name Elsa was one of the ten most frequently given girl names of the year in Germany. Then its popularity declined more and more. The name has been rather uncommon since the 1940s.
The success of the film Frozen , the main character of which is Elsa, gave the name new popularity in the United States. After the name was no longer among the 500 most popular first names since 1917, according to evaluations by the Social Security Administration , Elsa reached the 286th place of the most popular first names in 2014.
Well-known namesake
- Elsa Andersson (water diver) (1894–1994), Swedish water diver
- Elsa Andersson (1897–1922), Swedish aviation pioneer
- Elsa Lára Arnardóttir (* 1975), Icelandic politician
- Elsa Asenijeff (1867–1941), Austrian writer
- Elsa Barraine (1910–1999), French composer
- Elsa Benítez (* 1977), Mexican photo model
- Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949), German writer
- Elsa Beskow (1874–1953), Swedish children's book author
- Elsa Bienenfeld (1877–1942), Austrian music critic
- Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish philanthropist
- Elsa Bruckmann (1865–1946), Adolf Hitler's patron
- Elsa Calcagno (1910–1978), Argentine pianist and composer
- Elsa Dreisig (* 1991), French-Danish opera singer (soprano)
- Elsa Faber von Bockelmann (1890–1980), German writer
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), German Dadaist artist
- Elsa Sophie Gambard (* 1980), German actress
- Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), German Righteous Among the Nations
- Elsa Grube-Deister (1926–2001), German actress
- Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener (1878–1963), German writer
- Elsa Köhler (1879–1940), teacher from Lemberg
- Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), English actress
- Elsa Lunghini (* 1973), French singer and actress
- Elsa Martinelli (1935-2017), Italian actress
- Elsa Morante (1912–1985), Italian writer
- Elsa Neumann (1872–1902), German physicist
- Elsa Oehmigen (1908–1995), German street musician
- Elisabeth Plainacher , called Elsa (around 1513–1583), Austrian maid, burned as a witch
- Elsa Rendschmidt (1886–1969), German figure skater
- Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), Italian-French fashion designer
- Elsa Scholten (1902–1981), German actress
- Elsa Steyaert called Lza (* 1980), French photo model and actress
- Elsa Tesmer (1887–1968), eponym of the Tesa film
- Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), Russian-French writer
- Elsa Wagner (1881–1975), German actress
- Elsa Zylberstein (* 1968), French actress
Known animals
- Elsa (lioness) (1956–1961), lioness raised by Joy Adamson in Kenya
Fictional characters
- Elsa the cow , a sketch by Didi Hallervorden
- Alongside Ortrud, Elsa von Brabant is one of two leading female roles in Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin
- Elsa from the movie Elsa & Fred (2005)
- Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen (German: The Ice Queen - Totally Unabashed )
- Elsa Mars from the fourth season of American Horror Story
See also
swell
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
- ↑ Justin Wolfers: After 'Frozen,' a Baby Boomlet of Elsas. In: The New York Times . July 2, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015 .