Liza
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the female given names Eliza or Elizabeth, from Hebrew
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lajzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liza is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 412K
- IEIreland≈1 in 193as Lisa
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 Liza 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #64 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 662 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
864,260 named Lisa, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lisa in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more and Лиза in FI Finland.
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)
Shortened form of pEliza. Variant: Lisa. Lizzie ° Pet form of Liz, with the diminutive suffix -ie. Variant: Lizzy.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Liza is read(measured from records)
Liza is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English55%
A diminutive of the female given names Eliza or Elizabeth, from Hebrew.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
battle, fight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liza 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #28 | 864,260as Lisa | 1 in 385 | 864K | Lisa | 662 |
| GB United Kingdom | #35 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | 87 | Lisa | 422 |
| DE Germany | #102 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 519 | — | Lisa | 295 |
| CA Canada | #24 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 248 | 9 | Lisa | 341 |
| IT Italy | #91 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | 202 | Lisa | 195 |
| AU Australia | #27 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 46 | Lisa | 334 |
| PH Philippines | #107 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 22K | Liza | 143 |
| FI Finland | — | 59,387as Liisa | 1 in 94 | 104K | Лиза | 59 |
| IE Ireland | #19 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | — | Lisa | 185 |
| NZ New Zealand | #25 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 218 | 12 | Lisa | 183 |
| CZ Czechia | #120 | 26 | 1 in 412K | 420 | Lisa | 36 |
864,260 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. 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)
Liza is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Shortened form of pEliza. Variant: Lisa. Lizzie ° Pet form of Liz, with the diminutive suffix -ie. Variant: Lizzy.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of liz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, Causative form of -lia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nia, nit, baby louse
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Lisa del Giocondob. 1479FRsubject of the Mona Lisa
- Liza Minnellib. 1946USAmerican actress and singer (born 1946)
- Lisa Murkowskib. 1957USUnited States Senator from Alaska since 2002
- Rosanna Arquetteb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Lisa Gerrardb. 1961AUAustralian musician, singer and composer
- Lisa Kudrowb. 1963USAmerican actress (born 1963)
- Lisa Edelsteinb. 1966USAmerican actress (born 1966)
- Lisa Bonetb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Lisa Annb. 1972USAmerican pornographic actress
- Olivia Munnb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, comedian, television personality and author
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 104 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,691 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 188 | #1,846 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 126 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 82 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27 | #1,691 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 26 | #2,856 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 17 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #27,709 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1974 | 12 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 5 | #789 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Liza come from?
- Shortened form of pEliza. Variant: Lisa. Lizzie ° Pet form of Liz, with the diminutive suffix -ie. Variant: Lizzy. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Liza a male or female name?
- Liza 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.
- What are other forms of the name Liza?
- 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 Elizaveta and Yelizaveta.
- In which country does Liza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 864 thousand people named Lisa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Liza?
- A machine transcription gives /lajzə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Liza mean?
- In English, A diminutive of the female given names Eliza or Elizabeth, from Hebrew.
- How common is the name Liza?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 26 people named Liza, about 1 in 412 thousand residents.
- How common is Liza compared with other names?
- In the United States, Liza is the 28th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lizaThe 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, “Liza” — the 28th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.