Eliza
A short form of Elżbieta, carrying the same vow: "god is my oath". It rings familiar across Poland: given only to girls, it sits inside the top 500 and holds steady, with more born last year than in the flatter middle of the 2000s.
Eliza Pronunciation
Eliza is pronounced e-LEE-zah (/ɛˈliza/).
What Eliza means
Where Eliza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eliza comes to Polish through Elżbieta, and the two share a meaning that reads like a vow: god is my oath. In Polish that becomes bóg jest moją przysięgą. The name kept that promise while shedding the older bulk of Elżbieta, and it arrived shorter, quicker to write on a form at the urząd. The promise stayed.
Polish readers meet the name in Eliza Orzeszkowa, the novelist born in 1841. Her books landed on school reading lists, and many children came to know Eliza from a class register before they knew a woman who bore it.
The variant Elza travels well across borders, blunter and plainer than Eliza. Elżbieta remains the fuller form, the one on a christening record when Eliza is the everyday call. All three keep the same short meaning: god is my oath.
When Eliza celebrates name day
Eliza appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 14 June.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Eliza
1 in 777 women in Poland is named Eliza. 29,003 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #246 among female names.
Eliza's popularity over time
614 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #94 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2003.
Where Eliza is most popular
Eliza is most popular in Opole, 63% above the national average (171 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+54%) and Lesser Poland (+33%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Masovian, 49% and 46% below average respectively.
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Opole171 girls born+63%
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Subcarpathian424 girls born+54%
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Lesser Poland690 girls born+33%
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Silesian679 girls born+31%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian309 girls born+24%
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Pomeranian408 girls born+21%
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Lubusz122 girls born+8%
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Warmian-Masurian177 girls born+8%
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Lower Silesian331 girls born−8%
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Greater Poland450 girls born−8%
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West Pomeranian171 girls born−11%
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Łódź226 girls born−22%
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Świętokrzyskie94 girls born−26%
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Lublin170 girls born−27%
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Masovian433 girls born−46%
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Podlaskie77 girls born−49%
Eliza as a middle name
Eliza is a first name for 29,003 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10,077, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 110th, between Jagoda (10,085) and Kornelia (9,850).
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#108 Nikola10,284
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#109 Jagoda10,085
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#110 Eliza10,077
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#111 Kornelia9,850
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#112 Honorata9,820