Elza

Where Elza comes from

The dictionaries list Elza as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #341 among boys with 25 babies — 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
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.