Else

• As an English surname, spelling variant of Ell.
• As a north German surname, of Low German origin, from Proto-West Germanic *aliʀu (“alder”), comparable to Dutch els.

Else

1. A surname.

• EELS, ELEs, Lees, Slee, eels, l'ees, lees, lese, seel, sele

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlzɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛlzɛ
• Hyphenation: El‧se

Else

1. dative/locative singular of Elsa

Contraction of Elisabeth. Cognate with German Elsa.

Else

1. a female given name

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 59 911 females with the given name Else have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

From Danish Else.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelse/, [ˈe̞ls̠e̞]
• Rhymes: -else
• Syllabification^(key): El‧se

Else

1. a female given name

• Else is the 410^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 962 female individuals (and as a middle name to 435 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Borrowed from Danish Else.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɛlzə/

Else

1. a female given name

Contraction of Elisabeth.

Else

1. a female given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 270 females with the given name Else living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.