Entry № 448 · Hebrew origin

Aliza Aliza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LEE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Joyful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "joyful".

Aliza is from the Hebrew עֲלִיזָה (ʿAlīzāh — joyous, cheerful, glad) — from Hebrew alaz (to rejoice). Aliza is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting Jewish heritage.

Joyful — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

עֲלִיזָה
Transliteration
ʿAlīzāh
Pronunciation
/ əˈliː.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aliza stands.

Aliza does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alizas before her.

Real people
Aliza Begin
Wife of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin + First Lady of Israel + Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Camp David Accords heritage.
1920 – 1982
In fiction
Aliza Olmert
Wife of Israeli PM Ehud Olmert + Israeli artist + author + My Grandmother memoir.
born 1946

Names connected to Aliza.

The number behind Aliza.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aliza reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.