# Eliza (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/eliza/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɪˈlaɪzə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 70,771 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 202 / 70,569 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 19,552, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Shortened from Elizabeth.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,260 | 255 |
| 2012 | 1,421 | 223 |
| 2013 | 1,622 | 201 |
| 2014 | 1,605 | 212 |
| 2015 | 1,836 | 175 |
| 2016 | 1,867 | 174 |
| 2017 | 2,084 | 140 |
| 2018 | 2,266 | 131 |
| 2019 | 2,454 | 119 |
| 2020 | 2,349 | 115 |
| 2021 | 2,484 | 111 |
| 2022 | 2,347 | 121 |
| 2023 | 2,360 | 116 |
| 2024 | 2,317 | 118 |
| 2025 | 2,370 | 115 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 5 | 3,922 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,383 |
| 1934 | 8 | 2,804 |
| 1935 | 6 | 3,369 |
| 1937 | 7 | 2,996 |
| 1942 | 5 | 3,718 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,151 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,118 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,554 |
| 1981 | 6 | 5,710 |
| 1984 | 6 | 5,802 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,714 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,156 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,034 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,571 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 955 | 62 |
| 2012 | 996 | 61 |
| 2013 | 1,007 | 59 |
| 2014 | 1,165 | 47 |
| 2015 | 1,171 | 49 |
| 2016 | 1,226 | 45 |
| 2017 | 1,248 | 41 |
| 2018 | 1,220 | 39 |
| 2019 | 1,197 | 38 |
| 2020 | 1,052 | 43 |
| 2021 | 1,064 | 43 |
| 2022 | 893 | 53 |
| 2023 | 748 | 60 |
| 2024 | 702 | 63 |
| 2025 | 712 | 65 |

## People named Eliza

- Eliza Dushku, American actress
- Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
- Eliza Scanlen, Australian actress (born 1999)
- Eliza Acton, British food writer and poet (1799–1859)
- Eliza Bennett, British actress and singer
- Eliza, British singer (born 1988)
- Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay
- Eliza Coupe, American actress
- Eliza Haywood, British actor and writer (1693-1756), editor
- Eliza Cook, British writer (1818–1889)
- Eliza Schneider, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.