Elsje

given name · Latin script

Meaning: diminutive of els

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

/əɫzdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Elsje is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 46K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

4,593 people

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

diminutive of els

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Elsje 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 Elsje is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands4,5931 in 3.8K4.6KElsje36
ZA South Africa≈2,200 est.≈1 in 26K—Elsje25
BE Belgium≈260 est.≈1 in 46K—Elsje33
US United States≈87 est.≈1 in 3.8M—Elsje60
AU Australia≈51 est.≈1 in 503K1Elsje33
IE Ireland≈10 est.≈1 in 500K—Elsje4

4,593 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

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

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Elsjé

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom

    Also written Elsjé

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Elsjé

32 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Elsje Christiaens, b. 1646Elsje Engelsman-Jacobs, b. 1912Elsje Scherjon, b. 1938Elsje de Wijn, b. 1944

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)

InformalHi Elsje,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Elsje
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—4.6K#449
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.5K#935
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)19921—
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)19681—
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)19551—
NL NetherlandsBabynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Elsje mean, and where does it come from?
diminutive of els Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Elsje?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elisabeth.
How do you pronounce Elsje?
A machine transcription gives /əɫzdʒ/ (IPA) for English.
Is Elsje a male or female name?
Elsje is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Elsje have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Elsje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elsje.
Where is Elsje most common?
Elsje is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Elsje?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,593 people named Elsje, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elsje

The 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, “Elsje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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