Elza

Where Elza comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Elza.

  • Vowel-ended
Elza through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #341 among boys with 25 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #681.
  3. 1917
    Elza Radziņa born
    Latvian actress
  4. 1930
    Elza Soares born
    Brazilian musician
  5. 1992
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Elza Soares · Brazilian musician, 1930–2022
  • Elza Radziņa · Latvian actress, 1917–2005
  • Elza Brandeisz · Hungarian pedagogue, 1907–2018
  • Elza Temáry · German actress, 1905–1968
  • Elza Furtado Gomide · university professor and researcher active in Brazil, 1925–2013

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.