Elizabeth
From Hebrew, where it means "my god is an oath": the English spelling of Elżbieta. It stays genuinely uncommon in Poland, with only around 1,400 women carrying it, so most Poles have never met one.
Elizabeth Pronunciation
What Elizabeth means
Where Elizabeth comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Elizabeth comes from the Hebrew Elisheva, and the old sense holds firm: my god is an oath. A vow given a name. The English-speaking world made the name its own through Elizabeth I, who ruled for forty-four years and lent her name to a whole age of writing.
In Poland the same name settled into Elżbieta, with Ela and Elka as the everyday forms a child answers to. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, a princess remembered for giving her bread to the poor, kept the name in Catholic calendars, and her feast still marks an imieniny in November.
Say the diminutive Ela in a school register and no one thinks of Hebrew oaths. That distance is part of the story. A name can travel from a promise made to God to a girl raising her hand in class and lose none of its use along the way.
The meaning stays legible under all of it: bóg jest moją przysięgą, my god is an oath.
How many people are named Elizabeth
1 in 15854 women in Poland is named Elizabeth. 1,424 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #813 among female names.
Elizabeth's popularity over time
15 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #588 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where parents choose Elizabeth
Elizabeth is most popular in Lower Silesian, 129% above the national average (14 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+127%) and Silesian (+58%). It is least common in Lublin and West Pomeranian, 50% and 39% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+129%1 in 11,224 babies
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Pomeranian
+127%1 in 11,332 babies
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Silesian
+58%1 in 16,256 babies
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Lublin
−50%1 in 51,338 babies
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West Pomeranian
−39%1 in 42,213 babies
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Subcarpathian
−15%1 in 30,141 babies
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Lower Silesian+129% 14 born1 in 11,224 babies+129%
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Pomeranian+127% 13 born1 in 11,332 babies+127%
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Silesian+58% 14 born1 in 16,256 babies+58%
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Masovian+45% 20 born1 in 17,713 babies+45%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+18% 5 born1 in 21,876 babies+18%
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Lubusz+4% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies+4%
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Greater Poland−4% 8 born1 in 26,905 babies−4%
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Subcarpathian−15% 4 born1 in 30,141 babies−15%
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West Pomeranian−39% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−39%
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Lublin−50% 2 born1 in 51,338 babies−50%
Elizabeth as a middle name
Elizabeth is a first name for 1,424 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,460, a 37/63 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 180th, between Ludmiła (2,526) and Melania (2,429).
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#178 Marika2,543
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#179 Ludmiła2,526
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#180 Elizabeth2,460
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#181 Melania2,429
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#182 Arleta2,423