Elizah
Feminine · “God is my oath”
Elizah is given to both — 815 girls and 570 boys since 1880. See Elizah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Elizah reaches girls and boys by two different roads that meet at one spelling. For girls it is Eliza with a final h; for boys it sounds close to Elijah, with a z in place of the j.
How old is the name Elizah?
Elizah first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Elizah is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Elizah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elizah most popular?
Elizah peaked in 2024, reaching #3277 nationally. Today it ranks #3645, 368 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheva / Eliyahu to Elizah
The story of Elizah
The most famous Eliza on the English stage is Eliza Doolittle of Shaw's Pygmalion, the flower seller taught to speak like a duchess by the phonetician Henry Higgins, a character Shaw said carried touches of the real scholar Henry Sweet. Elijah is the great prophet of the Hebrew Bible. American parents have written Elizah for daughters as Eliza with a Hebrew-looking h, and a smaller number for sons as a softer Elijah, so the spelling is shared by two names that sound almost alike.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is my oath, through Eliza; or my God is Yahweh, near Elijah
Eliza is a short form of Elizabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva, God is my oath. Elijah is Hebrew Eliyahu, my God is Yahweh. Elizah can stand for either, and the record does not say which a family meant.
How the name formed
- Elisheva / Eliyahu
- Eliza / Elijah
- Elizah
Related forms: Eliza · Elijah · Elisheva
Pronouncing Elizah
ee-LY-zuh
For girls, usually said like Eliza. For boys, some families say ee-LY-zhuh, closer to Elijah.
Nicknames for Elizah
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 201748 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3277reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −14.6%41 in 2025, from 48
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.
Elizah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eliza in English — related form
- Elijah in English — related form
- Elisheva in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Elizahs among us
people named Elizah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was named Elizah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elizah
- #3645
- Elizah on the 2025 chart
- #93
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elizah went to 41 girls in 2025, but Eliza, Elisa and Elyza are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 3,154, which makes it the 93rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,552 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 510 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 39,202 for Elizah 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 Ricardo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elizah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ricardo climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ricardo's path sketches the road Elizah is walking now.
Elizah 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 Elizah is headed
Elizah 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.
Elizah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elizah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sounds like two classic names and is easy to say.
- Eli works as a short form for either a girl or a boy.
- It is rare as a spelling.
- People will write Eliza or Elijah and may not know which was meant.
- It leans to girls in the record; a boy named Elizah may be taken for a girl on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elizahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Elizah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elizah?
- Elizah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Eliza is the more common one — 2,370 births in 2025 against 41 for Elizah.
- How popular is the name Elizah in 2025?
- Elizah ranks #3645 among US girl names in 2025, with 41 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elizah?
- About 1 in every 39,202 US girls born in 2025 was named Elizah — 41 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elizah with classmates?
- Elizah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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