Given name · also Swedish
Yrsa
“she-bear”
Yrsa is a feminine given name, possibly from Old Swedish, ultimately from Latin. It is used in Swedish, Danish, Faroese, and Icelandic.
Original LatinUrsa
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yrsa possibly goes back to Latin ursa, meaning “she-bear.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Yrsa possibly comes from Old Swedish, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Yrsa developed from Ursa.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yrsa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,206 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,206 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yrsa’s family of names
In Danish usage, Yrsa developed from the Latin form Ursa. In Finnish usage, Yrsa has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Voršila.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yrsa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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