Elize

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elize, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Adeline
• Betty
• Celine
• Florence
• Felicity
• Beth
• Flora
• Amanda
• Dutch
• Gabrielle
• Belle
• Claire

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Elize is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Swahili given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Netherlands

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written Elizè, Elizé

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Élizé

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Elize is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Elizé Liénardb. 1808MUMauritian naturalist (1808-1876)
• Elize Baartb. 1854NLDutch writer and actor (1854-1879)
• Elize Zwartb. 1857NLDutch writer (1857-1952)
• Elize Grendelb. 1899NLDutch historian (1899-1986)
• Elize Cawoodb. 1952ZASouth African actress. (1952–2020)
• Anita Pountainb. 1960NLnot in their usual nameDutch basketball player (born 1960)
• Elize Rydb. 1984SESwedish singer (born 1984)
• Elize Spruntuleb. 1993LVLatvian association football player
• Elize van KaathovenNLDutch feminist
• Elize van DienstNLDutch painter

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Elize a male or female name?

Elize is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

How do you pronounce Elize?

A machine transcription gives /əɫaɪz/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Elize have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Elize in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elize.

Where is Elize most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Elize is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.9 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Elize?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,416 people named Elize, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.

How common is Elize compared with other names?

In Togo, Elize is the 372nd most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.