Elza (given name)

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Gender Unisex Word/name Hebrew		Name day December 1
Meaning mirthful, my god is abundance, my god is an oath/vow Related names Elizabeth, Eliza, Elsa,

Elza is an English name of Hebrew and German origins. A derivation of Elizabeth, and a close variant of the names Elsa, Eliza and Aliza, it is Germanic for "noble".

People

Elza Jeffords (1826–1885), a U.S. Representative

Elza Kephart, a film director, producer, writer

Elza Kolodin, a pianist from Poland

Elza Kungayeva, an 18-year-old Chechen woman abducted, beaten, raped and murdered by a Russian Army Colonel

Elza Leimane, a Latvian ballet dancer

Elza Maalouf (born 1965), an Arab-American futurist and cultural development specialist

Elza Medeiros (1921–2009), a Brazilian Army officer and World War II veteran

Elza Soares (born 1937), a Brazilian samba singer

Elza van den Heever, (born 1979) a South African opera singer

Elza Luijendijk (born 1995), a Dutch model

Fictional characters

Elza Walker, the beta version of Claire Redfield, the protagonist of the 1998 survival horror video game, Resident Evil 2

Japanese name of Zael a character of the Western release of the video game The Last Story

Elza, the protagonist of the 2011 film Elza

Inferno Queen Elza, a character in the Japanese role-playing game, Brave Frontier

Elza Gray, a character that appeared in Sailor Moon (anime)

As a code name

Elza, used by the Soviet spy Elizaveta Mukasei

As a place name

Elza, Tennessee, a community that existed before the 20th century

Others

Elza, 2011 film by Mariette Monpierre. New York Times Critics' Pick http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/movies/elza-by-the-writer-and-director-mariette-monpierre.html?_r=0

Elza, wedding dress by Oksana Mukha, part of the company's Privee Collectiom

References

Elza (given name) Wikipedia

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