The name pages

Eliza

Eliza stands at #115 nationally in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 70,569 American bearers across the record.

Eliza on the door plaque, from the book's opening page
Eliza complete and glowing, from the book's payoff page
Meaning

What Eliza carries

Eliza · Hebrew

“God’s oath”

Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.

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Eliza’s free Name Kit

Five printables for Eliza, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.

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  • Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
  • Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.

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Popularity

Eliza since 1880

Eliza peaked in 2021 at #111; #115 in 2025.

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United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.

Where it lives

Where Eliza is most common

Eliza is most common in Wyoming: 0.74% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Vermont (0.62%) and West Virginia (0.53%) follow.

Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.

Related

Names that sit near Eliza

Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.

Browse: names starting with E · Hebrew names · all names

Questions

About Eliza

1

How common is Eliza today?

Eliza stands at #115 nationally in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.

2

What does Eliza mean?

The reference we cite records “God’s oath”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).

3

Is there a sibling name for Eliza?

On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Ezekiel sits closest, with Elise and Giovanni just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.

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