Lizaveta
A Russian form of a Hebrew name meaning "God is my oath". Only about 1,400 women in Poland carry it, and almost none are given it now, so most Poles have never met one.
Lizaveta Pronunciation
What Lizaveta means
Where Lizaveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lizaveta reaches back to the Hebrew Elisheva, the source that gives us the meaning "god is my oath." Russian speakers took Elizabeth and reshaped it, and Lizaveta is one of the forms that settled in their language. The Hebrew root ties the name to a promise made before God, an oath offered as a vow of faith.
The name traveled out of scripture. Elisheva belonged to the wife of Aaron in the Hebrew Bible, and later to the mother of John the Baptist, whom Christian tradition knows as Elizabeth. Through Greek and Church Slavonic the sound shifted, and Russian ears settled on Lizaveta. The meaning stayed put.
For a Polish reader the name feels borrowed yet close. A girl named Lizaveta on a school class register carries a Russian coloring that a Polish Elżbieta does not. The root, though, is shared. Both go back to the Hebrew for "god is my oath."
How many people are named Lizaveta
1 in 16045 women in Poland is named Lizaveta. 1,405 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #820 among female names.
Lizaveta's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.