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The first name 
Elssa

Elssa is a first name for girls.

Elssa – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Elssa has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Elssa. That means that a girl named Elssa is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Elssa

Elssa has 5 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With five letters, the name Elssa is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.

Other names with 
E, l, s, s and a

If you take all the letters in the name Elssa – E, l, s, s and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lasse or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Elssa

If your name is Elssa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Elssa

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elssa, you can simply say:

Elephant

Lion

Sun

Sun

Apple

This is how the name Elssa is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Elssa in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Elssa

Elssa

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Elssa

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Elssa is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
L
S
S
A

Have you ever waved the name Elssa

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
L
S
S
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elssa sounds like this: