"Frozen" is a beautiful cartoon movie, and we have talked about it several times. Today we do it on the occasion that "Frozen" names are in vogue in the UK and there are now many more children called Elsa or Hans.
Specifically, the name of one of the protagonists of the film, Elsa, has managed for the first time to be among the 100 most popular names by achieving a 34% increase. Other names belonging to the film that are much more common in the records during the last months are Kristoff (40%), Hans (40%) and Sven (41%).
The smallest increases occur in the names of Anna and Olaf, although for very different reasons. In the case of the female protagonist, because Anna is already a very common name in the country (it has only increased 4%) and in the case of Olaf (4%), perhaps because the cute snowman is a bit reckless. Although, curiously, the name that has increased the most is the reindeer, Sven.
I certainly I would stay with Elsa, a name that seems to have a compound origin, a combination of Elisa and Elizabet, considered the German variant of Elisa. A possible etymology of the Hebrew Elyasa is also pointed out: 'God helps'.
We have seen in the blog other cases of names that became fashionable by television series or movies, such as "Game of Thrones" or "Twilight" and there really are names that sound more or less good to us. The bad comes when bad taste stains that fashion ...
But the fact that the names of "Frozen" are fashionable in the UK (and surely in many other countries) is just one more example that we are influenced by these successes that become cultural phenomena and that we will soon have other similar examples.
