Elsasser Family History
Elsasser Name Meaning
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) (mainly Elsässer): habitational name for someone from Alsace (German Elsass Yiddish Elzes) with the suffix -er indicating a native or inhabitant of a place. The name of the region (first attested in Latin documents in the form Alisatia) has traditionally been derived from Old High German ali ‘other foreign’ + saz ‘seat possession’ but Bahlow traces the first element back to a river name Ill or Ell. Compare Elsaesser and Elsesser .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022