Elsa is a female given name mostly used in the

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n countries.

Provenance

Originally Elsa was simply a short form for the

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name Elisabeth and some of its variants: Elisabet, Elisabetta and Elizabeth.NamepediA Blog – The Real Elsa
Retrieved 7 July 2016. The first record mentioning the name were in Sweden at the 15th century, and became generally used after the 19th century.

Variants

*Eli *Elis *Elise *

Eliza ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines ...

*Ella *Elle *Else *Elsie *Elys *Elza *Ilsa *Ilse *Els

Statistics

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

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic archipelago, island group and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotlan ...

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.

People

* Elsa Benítez (born 1977), Mexican model * Elsa Borg (1826–1909), Swedish social worker * Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish philanthropist * Elsa Beata Bunge (1734–1819), Swedish botanist *

Elsa Patricia Galarza Contreras Elsa Patricia Galarza Contreras (b. 12 August 1963) is a Peruvian economist. She had been the Minister of the Environment from 28 July 2016 to 2 April 2018. Biography Galarza holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of the Pa ...

(born 1963), Peruvian economist * Elsa Ehrich (1914–1948), German Nazi SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes *

Elsa Einstein Elsa Einstein (18 January 1876 – 20 December 1936) was the second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein. Their mothers were sisters, thus making them maternal first cousins. Further, their fathers were first cousins, making the couple paternal se ...

(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 Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical se ...

(1874–1927), German artist/poet * Duchess Elsa of Württemberg (1876–1936) * Elsa Gye (1881–1943), suffragette * Elsa Hosk (born 1988), Swedish model * Elsa Kazi (1884–1967), German writer and German origin Sindhi woman. famous for her poem The Neem Tree ( sd, نم جو وڻ). * Elsa Klensch (born 1933), Australian-American Fashion Commentator *

Elsa Lanchester Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British-American actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Obituary '' Variety'', 31 December 1986. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the F ...

(1902–1986), English-American actress, probably best known for playing the Bride of Frankenstein *

Elsa Leviseur Bibliography Elsa Leviseur is a South African architect specializing in landscape and ecology. She practiced in South Africa and later in England and the US. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1932. Her mother was Beryl Iris Basson (1887- ...

(born 1932), South African-born American architect. * Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette (1874–1944), Swedish writer and princess of Persia *

Elsa Lunghini Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single "T'en va pas", and she ...

(born 1973), French singer *

Elsa Majimbo Elsa Majimbo (born June 29, 2001) is a Kenyan internet comedienne from Nairobi. Her satirical monologues usually feature her eating potato crisps, leaning back to a pillow and using a pair of tiny 1990's sunglasses as a prop. Majimbo gained recog ...

(born 2001), Kenyan comedienne *

Elsa Martinelli Elsa Martinelli (born Elisa Tia; 30 January 1935 – 8 July 2017) was an Italian actress and fashion model. Life and career Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family. In 1953, she was discovered by Roberto Capu ...

(born 1932 or 1935), Italian actress and former fashion model * Elsa Maxwell (1883–1963), American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess *

Elsa Morante Elsa Morante (; 18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel ''La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time. Life and ...

(1912–1985), Italian novelist * Elsa Pataky (born 1976), Spanish actress, model, and film producer *

Elsa Peretti Elsa Peretti, OMRI OMM (1 May 1940 – 18 March 2021), was an Italian jewelry designer and philanthropist as well as a fashion model. Her jewelry and design pieces for Tiffany & Co. are included in the 20th century collection of the British Mu ...

(1940–2021), Italian jewelry designer *

Elsa Ratassepp Elsa Ratassepp (7 March 1893 – 4 May 1972), was an Estonian stage, radio and film actress whose career spanned over fifty years. Early life and career Elsa Ratassepp was born in Raadi-Kruusamäe, a neighbourhood of Tartu. She joined the Vanemu ...

(1893–1972), Estonian actress * Elsa Raven (1929–2020), American actress * Elsa Salazar Cade (born 1952), American entomologist/educator *

Elsa Schiaparelli Elsa Schiaparelli ( , also , ; 10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was a fashion designer from an Italian aristocratic background. She created the house of Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s. S ...

(1890–1973), Italian fashion designer of the 1920s and 1930s * Elsa Maria Sylvestersson (1924–1996), Finnish ballet dancer and choreographer *

Elsa Triolet Elsa Triolet (born Ella Yuryevna Kagan; (russian: Элла Юрьевна Каган); – 16 June 1970) was a Russian-French writer and translator. Biography Ella Yuryevna Kagan was born into a Jewish family of Yuri Alexandrovich Kagan, a ...

(1896–1970), French writer *

Elsa Zylberstein Elsa Zylberstein (born Elsa Florence Zylbersztejn, 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989, and has appeared in more than 60 films. She won the César Award for Be ...

(born 1968), French actress

Fictional characters

* 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 Elsa Bloodstone is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appears in Marvel's ''Bloodstone'' mini-series of 2001 written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. She is the daughter of the previously ...

, character from Marvel Comics *

Elsa of Brabant ''Lohengrin'', Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, WWV 75, is a Romanticism, Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably ...

, heroine of the Wagnerian opera ''

Lohengrin Lohengrin () is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story, which first appears in Wolf ...

'' *Baroness Elsa von Schraeder, from the film and stage show ''

The Sound of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, ''The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. ...

'' *

Elsa Schneider This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones (franchise), ''Indiana Jones'' series. Introduced in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' Indiana Jones Indiana Jones (character), Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford), the titular chara ...

, from ''

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is a 1989 American action film, action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third installment in the Indiana Jones, ''Indiana ...

'' * Elsa Cleeg, of ''

Kim Possible ''Kim Possible'' is an American animated action comedy-adventure television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel. The title character is a teenage girl tasked with fighting crime on a regular basis while copi ...

'' *Elsa Carrington, character from ''

Secret Agent Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangibl ...

'' *Elsa von Frankenstein, wife of the titular ''

Son of Frankenstein ''Son of Frankenstein'' is a 1939 American horror film that was directed by Rowland V. Lee and stars Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' ''Frankenstein'' series and is the follow-up to the ...

'' **Elsa Frankenstein, daughter of the brother of the ''

'', appearing in both '' The Ghost of Frankenstein'' and ''

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ''Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man'' is a 1943 American horror film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of later called "monster rall ...

'' *Elsa Granhiert, character from '' Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World'' *Elsa de Sica, from the manga/anime ''

Gunslinger Girl ''Gunslinger Girl'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series by Yu Aida. It began serialization on May 21, 2002 in '' Dengeki Daioh'' and ended on September 27, 2012. The chapters were also published in 15 ''tankōbon'' volumes by A ...

'' *Elsa La Conti, from the video game series ''

Arcana Heart is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature ...

'' *Elsa Lichtmann, from the '' L.A. Noire'' *Elsa Shivers from ''

I Know What You Did Last Summer ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Jim Gillespie, written by Kevin Williamson, and starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. It is loosely based on ...

'' *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 ''Jojo Rabbit'' is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 book ''Caging Skies''. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Y ...

'' *Elsa Gardner, from '' Atypical'' *Elsa, from '' The Fundamentals of Caring'' *Elsa, one of the main characters in '' Armour of God II: Operation Condor''

Other

Elsa the Lioness Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Though her two sister ...

, subject of the book and film ''Born Free'' *

Hurricane Elsa Hurricane Elsa was the earliest-forming fifth named storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, surpassing Edouard of the previous year, and was the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed over the central tropical Atlantic, ...

, a Category 1 Atlantic hurricane in 2021

References

External links

Wiktionary – ElsaNamepediA Blog – The Real Elsa
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