Elza is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Elza is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Elza each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Elza will meet someone with the same name. So, Elza is a very special name!
Elza is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2005, where the name Elza was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Elza and were born in the USA in 2005, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Elza even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular first names: In 1880, it ranked on position 649 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elza was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Elza has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 16 times and thus landed on position 11,865 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 16 kids with the name Elza, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
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 given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Elza is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Elza 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elza, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Zebra
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elza
Elza
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
Z
A
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
Z
A
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. Elza sounds like this:
