Yelizaveta
The Russian form of Elizabeth, from the Hebrew for "my god is an oath". Around 1,500 women in Poland carry it and the few births each year keep thinning, so most Poles have never met one.
Yelizaveta Pronunciation
What Yelizaveta means
Where Yelizaveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yelizaveta reaches back to the Hebrew Elisheva, the name that gives us "my God is an oath." It traveled from Scripture through Greek and into the Slavic east, where Russian speakers reshaped it into the form written here. The short meaning holds steady across those crossings: my god is an oath, a vow spoken and kept.
Russia gave the name a throne. Yelizaveta Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great, took power in 1741 after vowing she would sign no death sentence if she gained the crown. She kept that oath through twenty years of rule. Her name fixed the Russian spelling for a whole century.
The Hebrew root binds two ideas, God and the sworn word, into one. That pairing survived every language the name passed through. A girl signing Yelizaveta on a form at the urząd puts down a promise older than the alphabet she writes it in. The meaning stays fixed: my God is an oath.
How many people are named Yelizaveta
1 in 15049 women in Poland is named Yelizaveta. 1,498 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #796 among female names.
Yelizaveta's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1160 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #796 name among living women, even as it slips to #1160 among newborns.
Where Yelizaveta is most popular
Yelizaveta is most popular in Łódź, 468% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+358%) and Masovian (+103%).
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Łódź2 girls born+468%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+358%
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Masovian2 girls born+103%