Elzinga

Elzinga is a Dutch surname from the provinces of Friesland and Groningen. Originally meaning from the "house of Elso/Elze", it was in 1811, when surnames needed to be adopted by those families still using patronyms, adopted as a metonymic occupational surname, referring to the ''els'' (awl), used by shoemakers. Variant forms are ''Elsinga'' and ''Elzenga''. People with this surname include:

*Aant Elzinga (born 1937), Dutch-born science politics and history scholar *Kenneth G. Elzinga (born 1941), American economist and crime fiction writer *Peter Elzinga (1944–2023), Canadian politician *Peter Elzinga (archer) (born 1981), Dutch archer Provided by Wikipedia