Eliezer
A Hebrew name meaning "my god is help", carried in Jewish tradition. Just 86 men in Poland go by it, so most Poles will never meet an Eliezer.
Eliezer Pronunciation
Eliezer is pronounced el-YE-zer (/ɛlˈjɛzɛr/).
What Eliezer means
Where Eliezer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eliezer comes from Hebrew. It joins eli, "my God," and ezer, "help," so the whole name reads as a short sentence: my god is help.
Exodus supplies its source. Moses named his second son Eliezer, and the text explains the name, "the God of my father was my help" (Exodus 18:4). The word ezer sits at the root, the same help named in that verse.
The name stayed close to Jewish life for a long time. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus taught around the first and second century, and the Mishnah quotes him more than almost anyone. Centuries later the name belonged to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man who did most to revive Hebrew as a spoken tongue.
In a Polish class register, Eliezer stands apart from the Kacprs and Jakubs nearby. It brought no Polish diminutive with it. The name still says what it said in Exodus: my god is help.
How many people are named Eliezer
1 in 248211 men in Poland is named Eliezer. 86 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3792 among male names.
Eliezer as a middle name
Eliezer is a first name for 86 men in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1019th, between Eberhard (54) and Kyle (54).
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#1017 Barry54
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#1018 Eberhard54
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#1019 Eliezer54
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#1020 Kyle54
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#1021 Mihai54