Eliza
Eliza was given to 2,370 girls in 2025, #115 among girls’ names; 70,771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 53,200 Americans named Eliza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eliza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eliza mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eliza is “a female given name from Hebrew, popular in the 19th century.”
Shortened from Elizabeth.
/ɪˈlaɪzə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eliza?
#115 among girls’ names, 2025
Eliza rose from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.0 to 1.5 per 1,000.
2,490 babies in 2021, the peak
Eliza peaked in 2021, when 2,490 babies were given it (2,484 girls, #111 among girls’ names). The 2,375 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,370 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 2,317 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 2,360 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,347 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 2,484 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 2,349 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,454 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,266 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 2,084 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 1,867 | #174 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,836 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,605 | #212 | 0.90 |
| 2013 | 1,622 | #201 | 0.92 |
| 2012 | 1,421 | #223 | 0.81 |
| 2011 | 1,260 | #255 | 0.72 |
| 2010 | 1,311 | #241 | 0.74 |
| 2009 | 1,182 | #278 | 0.64 |
| 2008 | 1,028 | #326 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 1,007 | #333 | 0.52 |
| 2006 | 1,015 | #326 | 0.53 |
| 2005 | 1,046 | #305 | 0.57 |
| 2004 | 991 | #320 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 944 | #334 | 0.52 |
| 2002 | 830 | #359 | 0.46 |
| 2001 | 806 | #369 | 0.45 |
| 2000 | 759 | #379 | 0.42 |
| 1999 | 631 | #435 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 573 | #449 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 570 | #446 | 0.33 |
| 1996 | 539 | #466 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 506 | #488 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 379 | #594 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 403 | #582 | 0.22 |
| 1992 | 339 | #660 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 386 | #591 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 424 | #555 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 303 | #672 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 329 | #609 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 293 | #643 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 231 | #752 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 242 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 244 | #688 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 280 | #619 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 300 | #599 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 277 | #641 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 275 | #658 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 242 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 203 | #758 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 223 | #700 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 198 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 146 | #899 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 141 | #901 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 154 | #844 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 146 | #874 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,049 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 157 | #858 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 123 | #965 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 111 | #993 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 101 | #1,025 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 110 | #975 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 96 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 85 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 97 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,155 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 100 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 91 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 115 | #965 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 106 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 121 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 87 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 98 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 102 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 129 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 122 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 144 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 119 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 118 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 133 | #700 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 160 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 134 | #633 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 138 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 151 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 146 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1940 | 148 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1939 | 152 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1938 | 168 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1937 | 132 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 146 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 158 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 175 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 197 | #468 | 0.20 |
| 1932 | 238 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1931 | 205 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1930 | 246 | #423 | 0.22 |
| 1929 | 259 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1928 | 239 | #439 | 0.21 |
| 1927 | 286 | #404 | 0.24 |
| 1926 | 311 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1925 | 335 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1924 | 359 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1923 | 333 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1922 | 361 | #344 | 0.30 |
| 1921 | 352 | #350 | 0.29 |
| 1920 | 392 | #327 | 0.33 |
| 1919 | 388 | #320 | 0.34 |
| 1918 | 386 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1917 | 377 | #316 | 0.35 |
| 1916 | 328 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1915 | 356 | #313 | 0.36 |
| 1914 | 311 | #296 | 0.41 |
| 1913 | 315 | #260 | 0.50 |
| 1912 | 297 | #260 | 0.53 |
| 1911 | 258 | #244 | 0.62 |
| 1910 | 273 | #234 | 0.69 |
| 1909 | 249 | #226 | 0.72 |
| 1908 | 243 | #221 | 0.73 |
| 1907 | 232 | #217 | 0.73 |
| 1906 | 209 | #217 | 0.71 |
| 1905 | 222 | #204 | 0.76 |
| 1904 | 204 | #212 | 0.74 |
| 1903 | 247 | #186 | 0.94 |
| 1902 | 249 | #184 | 0.94 |
| 1901 | 207 | #198 | 0.86 |
| 1900 | 335 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1899 | 256 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1898 | 259 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1897 | 244 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1896 | 260 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 273 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 1894 | 297 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1893 | 272 | #148 | 1.3 |
| 1892 | 285 | #144 | 1.3 |
| 1891 | 280 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1890 | 297 | #132 | 1.6 |
| 1889 | 307 | #126 | 1.7 |
| 1888 | 343 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 1887 | 290 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 1886 | 287 | #109 | 2.0 |
| 1885 | 300 | #101 | 2.3 |
| 1884 | 280 | #101 | 2.2 |
| 1883 | 274 | #95 | 2.4 |
| 1882 | 280 | #92 | 2.6 |
| 1881 | 238 | #91 | 2.6 |
| 1880 | 252 | #85 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eliza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eliza has been given almost only to girls: 202 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Eliza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eliza, and how old are they?
53,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 70,771 Americans ever recorded as Eliza. The median Eliza alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 41,537 people named Eliza (41,251 women and girls, 286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,666 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 845 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,570 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 27,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eliza born?
The states with the most babies named Eliza are Texas, California and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 211 | #150 | 0.9× |
| California | 189 | #168 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 114 | #155 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 108 | #91 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 103 | #93 | 0.7× |
| New York | 91 | #179 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 87 | #82 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 83 | #115 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 79 | #90 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 78 | #89 | 1.3× |
Where Eliza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eliza is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eliza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,305 babies since 1880, Eliza is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,375 of their 2,502 babies (95%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eliza
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eliza and names like it
- Compare Eliza and ElizahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEliza peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eliza since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Eliza: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Eliza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eliza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.