Else

Where Else comes from

Else hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1869
    Else Lasker-Schüler born
    Jewish German poet
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1892
    Peak, #908
    11 babies named Else — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,485.
  5. 1910
    Else Alfelt born
    Danish artist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Else Lasker-Schüler · Jewish German poet, 1869–1945
  • Else Alfelt · Danish artist, 1910–1974
  • Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon · German photographer, 1900–1944
  • Else Krüger · Martin Bormann's secretary, 1915–2005
  • Else Ury · German Jewish novelist, 1877–1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.