# Liza (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/liza/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 17,655 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14 / 17,641 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 469, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 101 | 1,962 |
| 2012 | 108 | 1,866 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,803 |
| 2014 | 122 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 126 | 1,691 |
| 2016 | 115 | 1,807 |
| 2017 | 117 | 1,785 |
| 2018 | 126 | 1,668 |
| 2019 | 132 | 1,611 |
| 2020 | 116 | 1,737 |
| 2021 | 138 | 1,530 |
| 2022 | 119 | 1,748 |
| 2023 | 126 | 1,650 |
| 2024 | 112 | 1,801 |
| 2025 | 126 | 1,648 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 9 | 3,819 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,940 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,295 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,720 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2,176 |
| 2014 | 31 | 1,120 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,689 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,411 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,711 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,634 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2,042 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,692 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## People named Liza

- Liza Minnelli, American actress and singer (born 1946)
- Liza Weil, American actress
- Liza Koshy, American Internet personality
- Liza Soberano, Filipino and American actress
- Liza Lapira, American actress
- Liza Colón-Zayas, American actress
- Liza Snyder, American actress
- Liza Umarova, Chechen singer
- Liza van der Most, Dutch association football player
- Liza Lehmann, English operatic soprano and composer (1862–1918)
- Liza Nakashidze-Bolkvadze, Georgian politician (1885—1938)
- Liza Dalby, American writer and anthropologist

## 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.