Elyza
Feminine · “my God is an oath”
Elyza is Eliza respelled, and Eliza is Elizabeth with the back half worn off. The Hebrew underneath is a statement about an oath, and the number seven is tangled up in it in a way English cannot show.
How old is the name Elyza?
Elyza first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Elyza is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Elyza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Elyza most popular?
Elyza peaked in 2020, reaching #2257 nationally. Today it ranks #2957, 700 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Elisheva to Elyza
The story of Elyza
Elisheva is Aaron's wife in Exodus, and Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist in Luke — two anchors that put the name into both Jewish and Christian use permanently. English produced an extraordinary number of short forms from it, and Eliza became a complete name in its own right by the eighteenth century, helped along by pastoral poetry and later by the theater. The Elyza spelling belongs to the recent American habit of putting a y where an i would do.
Meaning
my God is an oath
Hebrew Elisheva joins El, 'God', to sheva, which carries both the sense of swearing an oath and the number seven — the two are bound together in Hebrew, since oaths were sworn by sevens. The name is usually given as 'my God is an oath' or 'my God is abundance'. The reading is documented. Eliza is the English trimming and Elyza a modern respelling of it.
How the name formed
- Elisheva
- Elizabeth
- Eliza
- Elyza
Related forms: Eliza · Elisheva · Eliza · Eliza
Pronouncing Elyza
ih-LY-zuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and an English long i there. Said exactly as Eliza; the y changes the look and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Elyza
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
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 202079 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2257reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −15.2%56 in 2025, from 66
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.
Elyza in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Eliza in English — spelling variant
- Elisheva in Hebrew — related form
- Eliza in Polish — same name
- Eliza in Hungarian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Elyzas among us
people named Elyza are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,701 born in 2025 was named Elyza
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Elyza
- #2957
- Elyza on the 2025 chart
- #93
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Elyza went to 56 girls in 2025, but Eliza, Elisa and Elizah 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 — 2,864 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 28,701 for Elyza 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 Aesha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Elyza's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aesha climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aesha's path sketches the road Elyza is walking now.
Elyza 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 Elyza is headed
Elyza 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.
Elyza beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Elyza in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ellie, Liza and Lizzy are three ready short forms with different registers.
- Elizabeth stands behind it as a full formal name whenever one is wanted.
- Three syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- Eliza is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing for life.
- Elyza, Eliza, Elissa and Elisa all circulate and are easily confused.
- The y-respelling ties it closely to one moment in American naming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elyzas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Elyza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Elyza?
- Elyza is one of 4 recorded spellings. Eliza is the more common one — 2,370 births in 2025 against 56 for Elyza.
- How popular is the name Elyza in 2025?
- Elyza ranks #2957 among US girl names in 2025, with 56 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Elyza?
- About 1 in every 28,701 US girls born in 2025 was named Elyza — 56 in all.
- Will my child share the name Elyza with classmates?
- Elyza will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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