Eliza

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A form of Elizabeth; once considerably popular in Ireland

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɪlaɪzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Eliza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 428as Elisa(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.2Kas Elisa
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7Kas Elisa

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 Eliza 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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 named Elisa, est.

#804 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
430 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 755 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ElisaLatin(measured from records)
אליזהHebrew(measured from records)
엘리사Hangul(measured from records)
ΕλίζαGreek(measured from records)
ელიზაGeorgian(measured from records)
เอลิสสาThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elisa in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, IT Italy and 2 more and Elissa in US United States.

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)

A form of Elizabeth; once considerably popular in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Eliza 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.

Where Eliza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#73≈150,000 est.≈1 in 428850Elisa227
BR Brazil#232110,902as Elisa1 in 1.9K111KElisa179
PH Philippines#395≈65,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Elisa77
US United States#96952,348as Elisa1 in 6.4K52KElissa430
AR Argentina#216≈38,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K179Elisa117
PL Poland—29,6411 in 1.3K30K—3
FI Finland—19,241as Elisa1 in 29023KElisa28
LV Latvia—2,4931 in 7552.5KEliza33

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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Eliza is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Elīza, Elíza, Éliza, Ęliza, Elîzâ

  • Russian given name100 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, United States

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Polish

    Also written Элиза, Еліза, Elisa, Елиза, Elise

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Elīza, Éliza, Êliza, Ėliza

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Eliza', Elīza, Ęliza

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Philippines, Romania

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Elīza

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Elîzâ

  • Albanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

    Also written Elîzã, Elizâ, Elîza, Ëlïzä

  • Armenian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia, Philippines

    Also written Էլիզա, Ēliza, Elīza

52 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Eliza 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.

  • Short form of jElizabeth, first used in the 16th century, and popular in the 18th and roth centuries. It was used by George Bernard Shaw for the main female character, Eliza Dolittle, in his play Pygmalion (1913), which was the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady. ELIZABETH

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, church (building or institution), congregation

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

  • English: short form of ELIZABETH , first used in the 16th century. It became popular, sometimes as an independent name, in the 18th and 19th centuries. The name was used by George Bernard Shaw for the main female character, Eliza Dolittle, in his play Pygmalion (1913), which was the basis for the musical and film My Fair Lady .

    as a word

  • In Basque, church

    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)

1700180019002000Elisa Bonaparte, b. 1777Frances Hodgson Burnett, b. 1849Gene Tierney, b. 1920Virginia Capers, b. 1925Elitsa Todorova, b. 1977Eliza Dushku, b. 1980Adrienne Bailon, b. 1983Eliza Taylor, b. 1989Eliza McCartney, b. 1996Eliza Scanlen, b. 1999

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)

InformalHi Eliza,

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 110 sources across 60 countries.

Official registers attesting Eliza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202250K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—50K#567
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202041K#1,021
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—34K#1,014
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—30K#129
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202630K#129
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202014K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.4K—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)2025614—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020286#1,021
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—271#567
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—254#1,541

Reference works 6

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 are other forms of the name Eliza?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elżbieta and Elsabeth.
What does the name Eliza mean, and where does it come from?
A form of Elizabeth; once considerably popular in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
How do you pronounce Eliza?
A machine transcription gives /ɪlaɪzə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Eliza a male or female name?
Eliza 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.
In which country does Eliza have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 146 thousand people named Elisa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Eliza most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eliza is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 755 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eliza?
In Poland, the national register counted 29,641 people named Eliza in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Eliza compared with other names?
In Italy, Eliza is the 73rd most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

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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, “Eliza” — the 73rd most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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