Elyza
Elyza was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,967 among girls’ names; 1,349 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Elyza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elyza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elyza?
#2,967 among girls’ names, 2025
Elyza fell from #2,658 in 2015 to #2,967 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 34.8 per million.
79 babies in 2020, the peak
Elyza peaked in 2020, when 79 girls were given it, #2,263 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,967 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,643 | 40.7 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,597 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,831 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,935 | 34.7 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,263 | 48.9 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,311 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,592 | 39.4 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,063 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,714 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,658 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,750 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,187 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,661 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,420 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,981 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,398 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,181 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,994 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,593 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,291 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,191 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,482 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,313 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,044 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,037 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,908 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,147 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,959 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,171 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,108 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,316 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,150 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,812 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,613 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,752 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elyza has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elyza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyza, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,349 Americans ever recorded as Elyza. The median Elyza alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 899 people named Elyza (889 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 976 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 474 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 824 |
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 Elyza born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,467 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,240 | 0.9× |
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 Elyza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Elyza?
Elyza is a less common spelling of Eliza: SSA has recorded 1,349 Elyza and 70,771 Eliza since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,305 babies since 1880, Elyza is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 2,502 babies (2.2%), the second most given that year.
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 Elyza
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 Elyza and names like it
- Compare Elyza and ElizaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sElyza peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyza since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Elyza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Elyza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.