Alsace

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alsace is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 565Kas Elsass(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 159Kas Elsass
  • NLNetherlands1 in 309Kas Elzas

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 Alsace itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

589 named Elsass, 2010

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark, as Elsass

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ElsasLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elsas in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Elsass in AT Austria.

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)

Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alsace 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.

Where Alsace is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States589as Elsass1 in 565K589Elsas105
DE Germany≈87 est.≈1 in 922KlistedElsas35
NL Netherlands56as Elzas1 in 309K56Elsas21
DK Denmark37as Elsass1 in 159K37——
MA Morocco≈25 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Elsas3
AT Austria≈6 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Elsass1

589 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling elsass. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Alsace is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Dominican Republic, Venezuela, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Alsacia, Alsácia

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Alsazia

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, France

    Also written Эльзас, Elsas, Ельзас, Elzas

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Alsace 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 English, province, France

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, geogr. pokrajina u I Francuskoj, 8294 km 2 , 1.812.000 stan., glavni grad Strasbourg; Elzas

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Alsace
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Alsace mean, and where does it come from?
Alsace (a cultural region, former administrative region and historical province of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Alsace have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 589 people named Elsass, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Alsace most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Alsace itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 159 thousand people named Elsass.
How common is the name Alsace?
In the United States, the national register counted 589 people named Elsass in 2010, about 1 in 565 thousand residents.

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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, “Alsace”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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