Ilse (first name)
Ilse is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Ilse is a short form of Elisabeth
distribution
At the end of the 19th century the name Ilse was moderately popular in Germany. This changed in the first years of the 20th century, so that the name was among the ten most frequently given female first names from the mid-1910s to the beginning of the thirties, and in 1920 it was even the most common. Then its popularity gradually waned at first, from the end of the forties strongly, so that nowadays children are hardly called Ilse.
name day
November 19th Elisabeth
variants
Ilsa, Ilsabe , Ilza, Ilze ( Latvian )
Name bearers
Ilsa
- Ilsa Paulson (* 1988), American marathon runner
- Ilsa Reinhardt (1911–2010), German politician
- see also Ilsa Gold , Austrian music group
Ilse
- Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), Austrian writer
- Ilse Aigner (* 1964), President of the Bavarian State Parliament, former German Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- Ilse Arndt (1913–2003), German survivor of the Holocaust and contemporary witness
- Ilse Bintig (1924–2014), German writer
- Ilse Countess von Bredow (1922–2014), German writer
- Ilse DeLange (* 1977), Dutch singer
- Ilse Gaste , German figure skater
- Ilse Hofmann (* 1949), German film and television director
- Ilse Huizinga (* 1966), Dutch jazz singer
- Ilse Koch (1906–1967), wife of the camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp
- Ilse Kopatz (* 1975), Austrian soccer player
- Ilse Naumann (1905–1983), German costume designer and fashion illustrator
- Ilse Neubauer (* 1942), Bavarian folk actress
- Ilse Salberg (1901–1947), German photographer, entrepreneur and patron
- Ilse Schwipper (1937–2007), German anarchist feminist
- Ilse Seemann (* 1934), German actress, radio play speaker, radio presenter and author
- Ilse Stöbe (1911–1942), German journalist and resistance fighter in the Red Chapel
- Ilse Werner (1921–2005), German actress
Ilze
- Ilze Bērziņa (* 1984), Latvian chess player
- Ilze Jaunalksne (* 1976), Latvian journalist and television presenter
- Ilze Juhansone , Latvian EU official
- Ilze Viņķele (* 1971), Latvian politician