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Elsa
Pronounced /ˈɛlsə/
Rank in 2024
#941
Born in 2024
280
Peak year
2014 · #286
Origin
German
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 280 girls were named Elsa, about 1 in every 5,761.
- It peaked in 2014 with 1,140 babies, ranked #286.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 30,490 girls have been named Elsa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Elsa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,520 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 2,359 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,438 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,133 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,403 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,519 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,270 babies, 0.26 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847). The common noun is after the character of the Frozen series of films.
- A female given name from German or Hebrew.
- Origin
- German
- Say it
- /ˈɛlsə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Elsa, CC BY-SA 4.0.