Alizah
Feminine · “joyful”
Alizah is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,459 girls against 10 boys since 1880.
Alizah is joyful in Hebrew — aliza, from a root meaning to rejoice — and it is a modern Israeli name rather than a biblical one.
How old is the name Alizah?
Alizah first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Alizah is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Alizah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Alizah most popular?
Alizah peaked in 2022, reaching #2021 nationally. Today it ranks #2139, 118 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aliza to Alizah
The story of Alizah
Modern Israeli naming drew heavily on ordinary Hebrew adjectives and nouns rather than only on biblical figures — Aliza from joyful, Ora from light, Ilana from tree. Aliza is standard in Israel. The -zah spelling is an English variant and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
joyful, cheerful
From the Hebrew aliza, 'joyful' or 'merry', from the root '-l-z, 'to rejoice'. It is ordinary modern Hebrew vocabulary. A separate Arabic Aliza and the English Eliza are unrelated names that sound similar. The Hebrew is documented.
How the name formed
- aliza
- Alizah
Related forms: עליזה · Aliza · Alizah
Pronouncing Alizah
ah-LEE-zah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the final syllable, a-li-ZAH.
Nicknames for Alizah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most girls named
- 202296 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2021reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +8.8%87 in 2025, from 80
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Alizah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עליזה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Aliza in English — spelling variant
- Alizah in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Alizahs among us
people named Alizah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,474 born in 2025 was named Alizah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Alizah
- #2139
- Alizah on the 2025 chart
- #394
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alizah went to 87 girls in 2025, but Aliza, Alisa and Alyza and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 754, which makes it the 394th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,745 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,132 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,474 for Alizah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Prescilla test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alizah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Prescilla climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Prescilla's path sketches the road Alizah is walking now.
Alizah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Alizah is headed
Alizah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Alizah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Alizah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The joyful meaning is transparent and warm.
- Ali and Liz are two short forms, both with large records.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- Eliza is an unrelated English name that sounds close.
- Aliza and Alizah are both in circulation.
- Hebrew and English stress it differently.
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Frequently asked
- How many Alizahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Alizah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Alizah?
- Alizah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Aliza is the more common one — 420 births in 2025 against 87 for Alizah.
- How popular is the name Alizah in 2025?
- Alizah ranks #2139 among US girl names in 2025, with 87 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Alizah?
- About 1 in every 18,474 US girls born in 2025 was named Alizah — 87 in all.
- Will my child share the name Alizah with classmates?
- Alizah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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