Eliza
2025 SSA
About Eliza
Eliza is a name with a wonderful combination of streamlined zest and Eliza Doolittle charm and spunk. It's a classic that's popular right now -- but not too popular.
Eliza has not been in the Top 100 since the 19th century and while it seemed like it was heading there again, it seems to have stopped just short of that mark. Which could be a very good thing.
Originally a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eliza eventually became a name in its own right. Despite its similarity to the Hebrew name Aliza, meaning "joyful," the two are unrelated. Eliza Schuyler Hamilton was the wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, recognizable today as one of the lead characters in the musical Hamilton.
Eliza is the name of one of the most vivid fictional characters, My Fair Lady's spirited Eliza Doolittle. Based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, Eliza is transformed from cockney flower girl to elegant lady, played on stage by Julie Andrews and on screen by Audrey Hepburn.
. Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennett was often called Eliza; in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza is the intelligent and courageous protagonist
Eliza Dushku is a charter member of the Joss Whedon rep company of actors, appearing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse and Much Ado About Nothing.
Pronounced ih-LY-zuh.
As of October 2026, Eliza ranked #115 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #85 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #74.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #212 | 1,604 | 897.9 |
| 2015 | #175 | 1,835 | 1,028 |
| 2016 | #174 | 1,867 | 1,053.6 |
| 2017 | #140 | 2,084 | 1,207.1 |
| 2018 | #131 | 2,265 | 1,331.5 |
| 2019 | #119 | 2,454 | 1,462.1 |
| 2020 | #115 | 2,349 | 1,453.1 |
| 2021 | #111 | 2,481 | 1,512 |
| 2022 | #121 | 2,345 | 1,429.8 |
| 2023 | #116 | 2,358 | 1,469.5 |
| 2024 | #118 | 2,303 | 1,421.4 |
| 2025 | #115 | 2,370 | 1,474.6 |
World rankings
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Eliza on lists
Famous Elizas
- Eliza Patricia Dushku
American actress
- Eliza Hope Bennett
English actress
- Eliza Carthy
English folk singer
- Eliza Coupe
American actress
- Eliza McCardle Johnson
First Lady of the United States as wife of President Andrew Johnson
- Eliza Doolittle (born Eliza Sophie Caird)
English singer
- Eliza Jane Taylor
Australian actress
- Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay
daughter of U.S. President James Monroe and acting First Lady
- Eliza Chulkhurst
English conjoined twin of Mary Chulkhurst, one of the Biddenden Maids
- Eliza
Jane Wilder, sister of Almonzo Wilder, sister in law of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Eliza Holland Madore
American actress
- Eliza Sam
Canadian actress
- Eliza Orzeszkowa
Polish novelist
- Elizabeth "Eliza" Schuyler Hamilton
activist and mother of Alexander Hamilton's 10+ children
- Eliza Roxcy Snow
American poet and Mormon leader
- Eliza Courtney
illegitimate daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Charles Grey
- Eliza Jean Anastasio (b. 1995)
daughter of musician Trey Anastasio of Phish
- Eliza Park
daughter of actors Kelly Coffield Park and Steve Park
- Eliza Morse
daughter of actor David Morse
- Eliza Lopes (b. 2008)
daughter of curator Laura Lopes; granddaughter of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
- Eliza Joy Getty (b. 2011)
daughter of Christian singer,songwriter Keith Getty
- Eliza Giles (b. 2012)
daughter of actress Caterina Scorsone and singer Rob Giles
Eliza in pop culture
- Eliza Minnick
character in "Grey's Anatomy".
- Eliza Doolittle
character in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and musical "My Fair Lady"
- Eliza Thornberry
main character on series 'The Wild Thornberries'
- Eliza Urbanski
character in Eleanor Henderson's novel "Ten Thousand Saints"
- Eliza "Liza" Winthrop
main character in "Annie on my Mind" by Nancy Garden
- Eliza
character Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- Eliza Reed
character in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
- Eliza Morales
minor character on TV's "The Walking Dead"
- Eliza
Louisa "Liza,Lu" Durbeyfield, character in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
- "Eliza
" song by Phish
- "Eliza
ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont St Bernard," opera by Luigi Cherubini
- "Eliza
" opera by Thomas Arne
- Eliza Montgomery
character in TV's "KC Undercover"
- Eliza Mountrachet Makepeace
character in The forgotten garden by Kate Morton
- Eliza Danvers
character on TV's "Supergirl"
- Elizabeth Bennet aka Eliza
main character in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"
- Eliza Pancakes
character in video game the Sims 4
- Eliza Harmon aka Trajectory
character on TV's "The Flash"
- Eliza Birch
character in 2013 film "Prisoners"
- Eliza Naumann
character in book/film "Bee Season"
- Eliza Ainsley
character in "Sims" series