Elsa

From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlsə/

Elsa (plural Elsas)

1. A female given name from German or Hebrew.
   • 1988, Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx, published 1990, →ISBN, page 35:

     A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —

   • 2022, Eleanor Turner, “On-screen inspo”, in Baby Names 2023, White Ladder, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, part one (Naming your baby):

     Do you remember the wave of Elsas that arrived shortly after the release of Frozen at the end of 2013? It became one the fastest-climbing names of the following year before dropping back, and then had another (smaller) spike in 2019 when Frozen II came out.

• Elsagate
• Elsanna

• ASLE, Ales, ELAS, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, sale, seal, sela

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlza]
• Hyphenation: El‧sa

Elsa f (relational adjective Elsin)

1. a female given name

• “Elsa”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Elsa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• lesy
• sely

Elsa f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Elsa: Elsuson
• daughter of Elsa: Elsudóttir

From German and Swedish Elsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelsɑ/, [ˈe̞ls̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): El‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): El‧sa

Elsa

1. a female given name
   • 1894, Teuvo Pakkala, Elsa, SKS, published 1995, →ISBN, page 11:

     Voisiko hänenkin tyttärelleen käydä noin, vaikka hän uskoisi Jumalaan, uskoisi niin vakavasti kuin on uskonut, että hän varjelee Elsan? Ei, se on mahdotonta!

     Could it happen to the daughter too, even if she believed in God, as seriously as she had, that Elsa would be safe from danger? No, impossible!

   • 2014, Heidi Jaatinen, Kaksi viatonta päivää, Gummerus, →ISBN, pages 153–154:

     Ja hän melkein hymyili sille. Ja sai tietää, että tytöllä oli nimi: Elsa. Siro nimi puhumattomalle tytölle.

     ...and almost smiled at it, and got to know that the girl had a name: Elsa. A graceful name for the girl that hadn't spoken a word.

• Elsa is the 105^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 7,372 female individuals (and as a middle name to 3,306 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Medieval diminutive of Elisabeth.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛlza/

Elsa

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.sa/, (traditional) /ˈel.sa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛlsa, (traditional) -elsa
• Hyphenation: Èl‧sa, (traditional) Él‧sa

From Latin Elsa.

Elsa ?

1. a river in Tuscany

Contraction of Elisabetta or Elisa.

Elsa f

1. a female given name

• Ales, lesa, sale

From Elisabet.

Elsa

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈelsa/ [ˈel.sa]
• Rhymes: -elsa
• Syllabification: El‧sa

Elsa f

1. a female given name
   • 2016 February 3, Goretti Alonso, “Elsa Chaxiraxi González Suárez : “Repito porque ahora soy más consciente del trabajo y quiero ir a ganar””, in La Opinión de Tenerife, retrieved 26 February 2016:

     La experienca^[sic] de ser candidata a Reina del Carnaval de Santa Cruz de Tenerife no es nueva para Elsa Chaxiraxi González Suárez, la aspirante que saldrá en el puesto número tres luciendo su fantasía ante el público del Recinto Ferial.

     The experience of being a candidate for the Queen of Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Carnaval isn't new for Elsa Chaxiraxi González Suárez, the hopeful who will appear in the third spot showing off her fantasy [costume] to the crowd at the Fairgrounds.

Rare medieval contraction of Elisabet, also a variant Danish Else. First recorded in Sweden in 1422. Taken to general use in the 19th century through the influence of the identical German name.

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Elsa c (genitive Elsas)

1. a female given name

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 42 087 females with the given name Elsa living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.