Eliza

What Eliza means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Eliza yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eliza?

US: Rising: up from #175 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #49 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 252 girls got the name (#85 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 678 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 356 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 716 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (7.4 per 1,000 girls), VT (6.16 per 1,000 girls), WV (5.32 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Eliza is #115 in the US and #65 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Eliza were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elisa674 US · 113 E&W
• Aliza420 US · 90 E&W
• Alisa125 US · 48 E&W
• Eloisa139 US · 18 E&W
• Elissa108 US · 21 E&W
• Alyza77 US · 24 E&W
• Alizah87 US · 10 E&W
• Elyza56 US · 12 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Eliza

Girls

• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Eliza’s. Rank is US 2025.