Eliza Forename
2,710th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 382,457 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
South Sudan
Eliza Forename Definition:
A ‘contraction, introduced by the Elizabethan poets, of Elizabeth’, Swan; often it is so dissociated from its original that it is considered as an independent name: ‘Eliza and Elizabeth are sometimes to be found in the same family’ (Yonge).
Read More About This ForenameEliza Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 42,539 | 1:5,036 | 681 |
| Malawi | 100% | 38,582 | 1:444 | 90 |
| Philippines | 99% | 38,568 | 1:2,749 | 535 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 30,816 | 1:375 | 90 |
| Poland | 100% | 28,085 | 1:1,354 | 181 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 26,690 | 1:1,978 | 395 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 25,179 | 1:2,932 | 431 |
| United States | 100% | 23,969 | 1:15,125 | 1,386 |
| Zambia | - | 14,045 | 1:1,129 | 246 |
| Russia | 100% | 9,341 | 1:15,441 | 461 |
| Romania | 100% | 8,660 | 1:2,315 | 273 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 8,465 | 1:30,474 | 4,102 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 6,914 | 1:864 | 140 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 4,582 | 1:34,802 | 3,368 |
| South Africa | 96% | 4,437 | 1:12,290 | 1,970 |
| Mexico | 100% | 4,357 | 1:28,493 | 1,456 |
| Uganda | 98% | 4,124 | 1:9,931 | 1,001 |
| Liberia | 98% | 3,567 | 1:1,237 | 228 |
| Angola | 100% | 3,374 | 1:7,992 | 1,018 |
| India | 100% | 3,358 | 1:361,786 | 31,874 |
| Kenya | 100% | 3,158 | 1:14,663 | 1,622 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 3,050 | 1:5,057 | 778 |
| Peru | 100% | 2,969 | 1:10,708 | 1,177 |
| England | 100% | 2,946 | 1:18,874 | 1,222 |
| Australia | - | 2,711 | 1:5,038 | 659 |
| Uzbekistan | 97% | 2,232 | 1:13,793 | 1,529 |
| Jamaica | - | 1,862 | 1:1,548 | 374 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,817 | 1:18,235 | 1,716 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 1,728 | 1:18,879 | 1,474 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,691 | 1:6,269 | 825 |
| Georgia | 100% | 1,588 | 1:2,354 | 376 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 1,313 | 1:23,191 | 2,276 |
| Armenia | 100% | 1,257 | 1:2,322 | 402 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,191 | 1:14,192 | 1,526 |
| Nigeria | 97% | 1,181 | 1:150,351 | 7,251 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1,085 | 1:44,036 | 2,126 |
| Papua New Guinea | 71% | 950 | 1:8,581 | 874 |
| Ghana | - | 787 | 1:34,290 | 2,099 |
| Greece | 100% | 733 | 1:14,918 | 810 |
| Scotland | 100% | 667 | 1:8,022 | 621 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 646 | 1:10,821 | 1,051 |
| Belgium | 100% | 612 | 1:18,775 | 1,493 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 596 | 1:3,093 | 428 |
| Hungary | 100% | 596 | 1:16,429 | 380 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 583 | 1:52,852 | 6,182 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 559 | 1:54,028 | 3,109 |
| Ecuador | - | 510 | 1:34,759 | 1,499 |
| Lebanon | 99% | 506 | 1:11,122 | 1,108 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 480 | 1:15,077 | 1,153 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 476 | 1:21,914 | 1,995 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 473 | 1:34,056 | 1,440 |
| Iraq | 100% | 459 | 1:76,292 | 2,132 |
| Iran | 100% | 444 | 1:176,795 | 3,429 |
| Guinea | - | 440 | 1:26,951 | 1,197 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 405 | 1:5,037 | 762 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 400 | 1:24,107 | 2,087 |
| Haiti | 100% | 373 | 1:28,759 | 2,186 |
| Somalia | - | 359 | 1:37,677 | 2,151 |
| Germany | 100% | 337 | 1:286,878 | 3,801 |
| France | 100% | 336 | 1:197,828 | 3,230 |
| Hong Kong | - | 317 | 1:24,457 | 2,187 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 317 | 1:55,984 | 2,161 |
| Nicaragua | 99% | 302 | 1:19,928 | 1,519 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 266 | 1:81,242 | 4,549 |
| Albania | 100% | 262 | 1:11,628 | 1,751 |
| China | - | 249 | 1:5,486,168 | 55,908 |
| New Zealand | - | 245 | 1:18,514 | 1,513 |
| Spain | 100% | 245 | 1:189,918 | 3,954 |
| Thailand | 100% | 228 | 1:307,306 | 17,226 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Honduras | 100% | 211 | 1:41,789 | 2,073 |
| Sweden | 100% | 197 | 1:50,040 | 2,643 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 195 | 1:121,896 | 13,408 |
| Argentina | 100% | 193 | 1:221,623 | 2,577 |
| Congo | 100% | 193 | 1:25,954 | 2,463 |
| Samoa | - | 183 | 1:1,067 | 329 |
| Panama | 100% | 177 | 1:22,071 | 2,116 |
| Egypt | 100% | 174 | 1:528,166 | 14,341 |
| Singapore | 100% | 163 | 1:38,571 | 6,542 |
| Belarus | 100% | 153 | 1:61,976 | 726 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 153 | 1:5,693 | 626 |
| Qatar | 100% | 138 | 1:17,171 | 2,552 |
| Yemen | - | 125 | 1:210,374 | 1,743 |
| Latvia | 100% | 123 | 1:16,387 | 840 |
| Ireland | 100% | 114 | 1:40,733 | 1,457 |
| Portugal | - | 111 | 1:93,792 | 2,607 |
| Turkey | 100% | 107 | 1:727,119 | 8,498 |
| Bahamas | - | 105 | 1:3,804 | 683 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 105 | 1:23,417 | 1,389 |
| Cuba | - | 99 | 1:116,228 | 2,162 |
| Chile | 100% | 98 | 1:179,665 | 3,478 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| Malta | - | 91 | 1:4,718 | 654 |
| Denmark | - | 85 | 1:66,465 | 2,271 |
| Italy | 100% | 79 | 1:772,938 | 7,237 |
| Brunei | 100% | 77 | 1:5,449 | 544 |
| El Salvador | - | 77 | 1:82,361 | 1,953 |
| Belize | 100% | 76 | 1:4,662 | 964 |
| Wales | 100% | 76 | 1:40,715 | 1,568 |
| Kosovo | - | 69 | 1:26,977 | 2,674 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 68 | 1:8,543 | 891 |
| Norway | 100% | 67 | 1:76,602 | 2,741 |
| Abkhazia | 98% | 66 | 1:3,688 | 481 |
| Guam | - | 63 | 1:2,550 | 533 |
| Cape Verde | - | 57 | 1:9,283 | 996 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 57 | 1:23,885 | 2,685 |
| Moldova | 100% | 56 | 1:63,592 | 1,005 |
| Switzerland | 99% | 52 | 1:157,952 | 4,074 |
| Guyana | 100% | 49 | 1:15,577 | 2,074 |
| Japan | - | 49 | 1:2,611,960 | 21,755 |
| Botswana | 100% | 47 | 1:46,478 | 4,592 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 41 | 1:1,306 | 272 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 38 | 1:125,472 | 3,625 |
| French Polynesia | - | 38 | 1:7,313 | 1,076 |
| Austria | 100% | 36 | 1:236,506 | 3,246 |
| Sudan | 100% | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 35 | 1:5,553,077 | 51,090 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 32 | 1:3,106 | 634 |
| Estonia | 100% | 26 | 1:50,592 | 2,900 |
| Nepal | - | 26 | 1:1,095,667 | 22,700 |
| Palestine | 100% | 25 | 1:182,002 | 2,292 |
| Senegal | 100% | 25 | 1:583,254 | 7,036 |
| Croatia | 100% | 23 | 1:183,351 | 3,362 |
| Jordan | 100% | 22 | 1:401,217 | 3,496 |
| Grenada | 100% | 21 | 1:5,149 | 844 |
| Israel | 71% | 21 | 1:400,139 | 8,803 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 19 | 1:856,491 | 14,474 |
| Czechia | 100% | 19 | 1:560,851 | 2,621 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 93% | 19 | 1:5,873 | 978 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 19 | 1:10,105 | 1,197 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 19 | 1:5,776 | 921 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 18 | 1:397,333 | 16,617 |
| Finland | 96% | 17 | 1:322,540 | 4,487 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 17 | 1:173,640 | 1,834 |
| Ethiopia | - | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| Myanmar | - | 16 | 1:3,246,767 | 1,079 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 16 | 1:2,169 | 514 |
| Benin | 100% | 15 | 1:705,056 | 20,455 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 15 | 1:228,509 | 3,962 |
| Macau | - | 11 | 1:55,292 | 585 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 11 | 1:4,987 | 869 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 11 | 1:16,165 | 1,838 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 10 | 1:355,030 | 3,308 |
| Burundi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,100,729 | 1,050 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Namibia | - | 9 | 1:267,131 | 5,329 |
| South Korea | 100% | 9 | 1:616,047 | 14,026 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 9 | 1:52,849 | 793 |
| Vietnam | - | 9 | 1:10,291,457 | 4,134 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 8 | 1:2,884,492 | 56,420 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 8 | 1:261,345 | 7,184 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 7 | 1:2,625,638 | 48,146 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 7 | 1:585,034 | 11,039 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 6 | 1:885,010 | 3,389 |
| Mozambique | - | 4 | 1:6,810,839 | 3,114 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4 | 1:1,772,166 | 913 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Jersey | - | 3 | 1:33,327 | 1,495 |
| Mauritius | - | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| Serbia | 100% | 3 | 1:2,381,907 | 7,319 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 2 | 1:30,650 | 1,815 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Niger | 100% | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Syria | - | 2 | 1:9,653,038 | 7,712 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Éliza (2), Elíza (1) & Èliza (1) are calculated separately.
Eliza (14,621) may also be a surname.
Eliza Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A ‘contraction, introduced by the Elizabethan poets, of Elizabeth’, Swan; often it is so dissociated from its original that it is considered as an independent name: ‘Eliza and Elizabeth are sometimes to be found in the same family’ (Yonge). Cf. Liz, Liza.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Corrupted from Elisabeth. Hence from Eliza, as nicknames, Liz, Lizzy.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Hebrew (feminine) - God is her oath, or a worshipper of God.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Eliza Forename Popularity
Eliza Demographics
Eliza Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 393 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Eliza Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Eliza in the Russian language | ||
| Элиза | eliza | - |
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