Elsa
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈɛlsə//
A female given name from German or Hebrew.
proper noun
- 1
A female given name from German or Hebrew.
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 —
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.
Etymology
From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).
Forms
- plural
- Elsas
Elmer · A surname transferred from the given name.Elmo · A male given name from Italian.elope · Of a married or engaged person, to run away from home with a…
Elsa · A female given name from German or Hebrew.
else · Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.Else · A surname.elsewhere · Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.