Entry № 2887 · Hebrew origin

Eliza Eliza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ eh-LIE-zah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"God is my oath"
Syllables
3
First recorded
18th c.

A name that means "god is my oath".

Eliza is a short form of Elizabeth — from the Hebrew Elīšeḇaʿ, meaning "God is my oath." It came into widespread use as an independent name in the eighteenth century and has remained in continuous use ever since.

More recently, the musical Hamilton has brought Eliza Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton's wife) into contemporary consciousness. Today Eliza sits in the U.S. top 100.

Elizabeth's short form, now standing on its own.

The name in its native script.

Eliza
Transliteration
Eliza
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈlaɪ.zə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eliza stands.

Eliza 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.

Elizas before her.

Real people
Eliza Hamilton
Wife of Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. Founding Father. Co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York.
1757 – 1854
Eliza Schuyler
Original name of Eliza Hamilton.
1757 – 1854
In fiction
Eliza Doolittle
Heroine of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and the musical My Fair Lady.
1913 play; 1956 musical

Names connected to Eliza.

The number behind Eliza.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eliza reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.