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Elizaveta

The Russian form of a Hebrew name meaning "God is my oath". Around a thousand women in Poland carry it, so few that most people here have never met one.

Elizaveta Pronunciation

Related names
Elżbieta Ela
Alive in 2025
1,033
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#945

What Elizaveta means

Where Elizaveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Elizaveta begins in Hebrew, in the older name Elisheva, whose sense is "God is my oath." The same root spread across Europe as Elizabeth and settled into Polish as Elżbieta. Elizaveta is the Russian form, spoken in Moscow and Petersburg for centuries.

Russians shaped it to their own ear, drawing out Liza and Lizaveta for daily use. Polish families reach for a shorter version too, Ela, small enough for a child. The names sit close, cousins from one Hebrew source.

The grandest bearer wore a crown. Elizaveta Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great, took the Russian throne in 1741 and kept it for twenty years. She is remembered for refusing to sign a single death sentence.

Read a class register in a Polish school and you may find Ela in the margin, an ordinary girl standing in for that old oath: God is my oath.

How many people are named Elizaveta

1 in 21824 women in Poland is named Elizaveta. 1,033 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #945 among female names.

People with the name Elizaveta 2019 → 2025
1,033 +896 since 2019
2020 171 +34
2021 220 +49
2022 324 +104
2023 974 +650
2024 1,006 +32
2025 1,033 +27

Elizaveta's popularity over time

8 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #766 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017.

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8 newborns with the name Elizaveta in 2025
national rank #766 that year

Where parents choose Elizaveta

Elizaveta is most popular in Lubusz, 244% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+141%) and Pomeranian (+93%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Łódź, 47% and 10% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +244%
    1 in 16,552 babies
  • Masovian
    +141%
    1 in 23,618 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +93%
    1 in 29,464 babies
Chosen least
  • Greater Poland
    −47%
    1 in 107,622 babies
  • Łódź
    −10%
    1 in 63,359 babies

Elizaveta as a middle name

Elizaveta is a first name for 1,033 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4738th, between Elisavet (3) and Eliška (3).

As a first name
1,033
As a middle name
3
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking women

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