Elizabeta
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and no newborn shows up in the records: most Poles have never met one. It's a rare variant of Elżbieta, from the Hebrew for "my god is an oath".
Elizabeta Pronunciation
Elizabeta is pronounced e-lee-zah-BE-tah (/ɛlizaˈbɛta/).
What Elizabeta means
Where Elizabeta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Elizabeta reaches back to the Hebrew Elisheva, the source of its meaning, "my god is an oath." The name moved through Greek Elisabet and Latin into the Slavic world, where Polish reshaped it as Elżbieta. Elizabeta is the more Latinate spelling of that same root.
A name this old collects short forms. Polish speakers reach for Eliza when they want something lighter, and for Ela when they want something quicker still. Eliza carries its own literary weight, since Eliza Orzeszkowa signed her novels with it.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary anchors the name-day, which Polish calendars mark on 19 November. A child called Elizabeta shares that date with every Elżbieta in the class register. The vow inside the Hebrew stays legible. My god is an oath.
How many people are named Elizabeta
1 in 247734 women in Poland is named Elizabeta. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3660 among female names.
Elizabeta as a middle name
Elizabeta is a first name for 91 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2742nd, between Elinor (8) and Ellena (8).
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#2740 Elfreda8
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#2741 Elinor8
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#2742 Elizabeta8
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#2743 Ellena8
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#2744 Emili8