Liz
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 10th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 134(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.7K
- FRFrance≈1 in 598as Lucie
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Liz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
223,874 named Lucie
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Leeds in US United States and ליז in DK Denmark.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 223,874as Lucie | 1 in 48 | 224K | Liz | 19 |
| US United States | — | 130,370as Lucy | 1 in 2.6K | 130K | Leeds | 342 |
| FR France | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 598 | 211K | Liz | 398 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 68,832as Luz | 1 in 246 | 69K | Liz | 35 |
| PY Paraguay | #10 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 134 | — | Liz | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 44,828 | 1 in 4.7K | 45K | Liz | 136 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12,467as Lis | 1 in 471 | 12K | ליז | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9,048as Luz | 1 in 563 | 9K | — | 48 |
223,874 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling lucie. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Liz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Consagrada a Dios
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
English: the most common of all the various short forms of ELIZABETH .
as a word
In Serbo-Croatian, a lick (act of licking, stroke of the tongue)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Libinza.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Liz Smithb. 1921GBBritish actress (1921–2016)
- Liz Sheridanb. 1929USAmerican actress (1929–2022)
- Liz Torresb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Liz Tuccillob. 1964USAmerican writer and film director
- Liz Cheneyb. 1966USUnited States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023
- Liz Phairb. 1967USAmerican musician
- Liz Carrb. 1972GBBritish actress, comedian, and disability rights campaigner (born 1972)
- Liz Vasseyb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Liz Whiteb. 1979GBEnglish actress
- Liz Hannahb. 1985USAmerican screenwriter and producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 45K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44K | #606 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 31K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,463 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 4.2K | #396 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.9K | #3,922 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #1,410 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 528 | #813 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 506 | #606 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 178 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 117 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 92 | #1,463 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liz mean, and where does it come from?
- The most common of all the various short forms of jElizabeth. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Liz?
- In the etymology graph, Lisa, Isabel and Betty are forms of the same name in other languages; Lillia is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Elizabeth and Elsabeth.
- How do you pronounce Liz?
- A machine transcription gives /lɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Liz have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 224 thousand people named Lucie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Liz a male or female name?
- Liz is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Liz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 44,828 people named Liz in 2022, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Liz compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Liz is the 10th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lizThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liz” — the 10th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.