Elma (given name)
Elma is a primarily feminine given name of various origins.
Usage
As an English name, it is considered a feminine version of the name Elmer, or a combination of the names Elizabeth and Mary, a diminutive form of Wilhelmina and various names ending in -elma, or a variant of Alma, Elmira, or Helma.In the Balkans, Elma is popular among Bosniaks in the former Yugoslav nations. The name has been among the 100 most popular names for girls born in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2009 and 2024. In this region, the male equivalent is Elmin.
In Brazil, Elma was among the 1,000 most popular names for girls born between 1930 and 1980. In the United States, it was among the 1,000 most popular names for girls born in the United States between 1880 and 1958.
Women
- Elma Bellini, American judge
- Elma Bulla, Hungarian stage and film actress
- Wilhelmina "Elma" Campbell, Scottish nationalist activist
- Elma Tryphosa Dangerfield, British journalist, writer, campaigner and Liberal Party politician
- Elma Danielsson, Swedish journalist and politician
- Elma Davis, South African international lawn bowler
- Elma de Vries, Dutch marathon speed skater and inline speed skater
- Elma Dienda, South African-born Namibian politician and teacher
- Elma Salinas Ender, American attorney and judge
- Elma Francois, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Afrocentric Socialist political activist
- Elma Gada Kris, Australian dancer and choreographer of Aboriginal Australian descent
- Elma González, Mexican-born American plant cell biologist
- Elma Gove, American painter
- Elma Halilcevic, Danish handball player of Bosnian descent
- Elma Holder, American elder rights activist
- Elizabeth "Elma" Innes, Scottish paediatric haematologist
- Elma Karlowa, Yugoslav film and television actress
- Elma Lewis, American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts
- Elma Maua, Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor
- Elma Mbadiwe, Nigerian actress
- Elma Miller, Canadian musician, composer, writer and educator
- Elma Mitchell, Scottish poet
- Elma Muros, Filipina former track and field athlete
- Elma Napier, Scottish-born writer and politician who spent most of her life in Dominica
- Elma N'For, Cameroonian footballer
- Elma Parsamyan, Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and astronomer
- Elma Postma, South African actress and presenter
- Elma Rabe, South African politician
- Elma Roach, Australian modernist painter and woodworker
- Elma Saiz, Spanish politician
- Elma Sandford-Morgan, Australian physician who practised medicine in India and Iraq during the 1920s
- Elma Shemsovikj, Macedonian footballer
- Elma Soiron, English actress
- Elma Steck, American women's baseball player
- Elma Ström, Swedish opera singer
- Elma Stuckey, American poet and school teacher of African-American descent
- Elma van Haren, Dutch poet
- Elma Mary Williams, British writer
- Elma Yerburgh, English businesswoman and public benefactor
Men
- Elma G. Albert, American judge