Elsasser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: for someone from Alsace (Ger
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/elsasseɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Elsasser 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 Elsasser 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 Elsässer in DE Germany, 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)for someone from Alsace (Ger. Elsass, Yid. Elzes), with the suffix -e'r indicatign a native or inhabitant of a place. The name of the region (first attested in L documents in the form Alisatia) has traditionally been derived from OHG ali other, foreign + saz seat, possession, but Bahlow traces the first element back to a river name III or Ell. Vars.: Jewish: Elzesser, Elzas.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elsasser 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)Elsasser is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, name for someone from Alsace (Ger. Elsass, Yid. Elzes), with the suffix -er indicating a native or inhabitant of a place. The name of the region (first attested in L docu¬ ments in the form Alisatia) has traditionally been derived from OHG ali other, foreign + saz seat, possession, but Bahlow traces the first element back to a river name III or Elvin see Alwyn
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, Toponymic surname from Elsass/Alsace; historical spellings include Elsass, Elseßer, Elsässer, Elsesser, Ellsesser, Elsäßer, Elsäsßer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: Herkunftsname zu Elsass/Alsace; bearer count 157.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Danish, Alsatian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Friedrich August Elsasserb. 1810DEpainter (1810-1845)
- Julius Albert Elsasserb. 1814DEGerman painter (1814-1859)
- Walter M. Elsasserb. 1904DEGerman-American physicist
- Hans Elsasserb. 1943CHSwiss geographer
- Kurt Elsasserb. 1967ATAustrian musician and singer
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,563 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,117 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 153 | #7,832 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
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
- Where does the name Elsasser come from?
- for someone from Alsace (Ger. Elsass, Yid. Elzes), with the suffix -e'r indicatign a native or inhabitant of a place. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Elsasser?
- In Spanish /elsasseɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Elsasser mean?
- Recorded meaning: for someone from Alsace (Ger.
- In which country does Elsasser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Elsasser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elsässer.
- How common is the name Elsasser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,295 people named Elsasser 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/elsasserThe 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, “Elsasser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.