Elsässer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old name, Baden 1809, coming from Alsace
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈɛlzɛsɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Elsässer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 48K
- ATAustria≈1 in 110Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Elsässer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Elsasser in US United States, CA Canada, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Old name, Baden 1809, coming from Alsace.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elsässer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Elsässer | 78 |
| US United States | 1,295 | 1 in 257K | 1.3K | Elsasser | 203 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Elsasser | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Elsasser | 36 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 382K | 23 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 175 | 1 in 48K | 175 | Elsasser | 24 |
| AT Austria | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Elsässer | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-4 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Elsässer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from Elsass/Alsace; variants and historical spellings shown in the atlas. Bearer counts are given in the regional lists.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Alsatian (person from Alsace)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: Herkunftsname zu Elsass/Alsace; bearer count 1438.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Xavier Elsässerb. 1805CHSwiss politician and lawyer (1805-1871)
- Emil Elsässerb. 1846CHSwiss politician (1846-1924)
- Günter Elsässerb. 1907DEGerman judge and psychiatrist (1907–1999)
- Utz Elsässerb. 1927DEGerman production designer
- Hans Elsässerb. 1929DEGerman astronomer
- Antonellus Elsässerb. 1930DEGerman theologian and priest
- Hubert Elsässerb. 1934DEGerman sculptor (1934-2009)
- Regine Elsässerb. 1946DEGerman translator
- Jürgen Elsässerb. 1957DEGerman right-wing extremist activist and journalist
- Thomas Elsässerb. 1957DEGerman physicist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 175 | #6,995 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elsässer mean, and where does it come from?
- Old name, Baden 1809, coming from Alsace. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Elsässer?
- In the etymology graph, Elsass is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elsässer?
- In German /ˈɛlzɛsɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Elsässer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Elsässer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elsässer.
- How common is the name Elsässer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,295 people named Elsässer in 2010, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/els%C3%A4sserThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elsässer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.