Eliza

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Eliza is ranked 118th among girls in 2024 (2,303 births). Its best rank was 85th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: #118down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2,3030.14% of girls
Peak year: 20212,481 births
Best rank: #85in 1880
Since 1880: 68,173people given the name

Babies named Eliza, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

68,173 girls have been named Eliza in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 2,481 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 134 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Eliza
1880s	2,851
1890s	2,723
1900s	2,397
1910s	3,289
1920s	3,227
1930s	1,817
1940s	1,391
1950s	1,057
1960s	1,007
1970s	1,727
1980s	2,774
1990s	4,749
2000s	9,608
2010s	17,720
2020s	11,836

In 2021, its biggest year

Eliza was the 111th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Eliza

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.