Yelizavieta
Fewer than 300 women in Poland carry Yelizavieta, so most people here will never meet one. It's the Russian form of the Hebrew Elisheva, "my god is my oath".
Yelizavieta Pronunciation
What Yelizavieta means
Where Yelizavieta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yelizavieta is the Russian form of a name that began in Hebrew. Its source is Elisheva, read as "my god is my oath." It began as a vow. Greek speakers reshaped it into Elisabet, and from there it traveled east and west, reaching Russian as Yelizavieta and Polish as Elżbieta.
In Russia the name has belonged to empresses and to ordinary schoolgirls alike. Yelizaveta Petrovna, a daughter of Peter the Great, ruled from 1741 to 1762 and left it stamped across her century. Writers kept it in circulation, and it stayed common well past her reign.
A Polish child who carries the name is often Ela at home and Elka among friends, while the certificate at the urząd keeps the fuller form Elżbieta. Under every shortening the old promise holds: my god is my oath.
How many people are named Yelizavieta
1 in 90175 women in Poland is named Yelizavieta. 250 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1944 among female names.