Elsa is the German and Scandinavian short form of Elisabeth, from the Hebrew Elisheva, "God is my oath". The name of Wagner's heroine in Lohengrin and of the lioness in Born Free, it became a household name through Disney's Frozen in 2013. That film sent Elsa from number 911 in 2000 to a peak of number 286 in 2014, after which it fell just as fast; it stands at number 1104 in 2025.