Yelysaveta
Just 24 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been recorded with it since 2000: most Poles will never meet one. It's the Ukrainian form of Elizabeth, from the Hebrew for "God is my oath".
Yelysaveta Pronunciation
What Yelysaveta means
Where Yelysaveta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yelysaveta is the Ukrainian form of Elizabeth. Its root is the Hebrew Elisheva, which reads as "God is my oath." That vow sits in the oldest layer of the name, long before it reached Kyiv or Lviv.
The oath is old. In central Ukraine a whole city once bore the name. Yelysavethrad, founded in the eighteenth century, took its title from Saint Elizabeth. The place has since been renamed Kropyvnytskyi, yet the form Yelysaveta stayed on birth records and school rolls across the country.
On a Polish class register, Yelysaveta lands among the older Elżbietas, close in sound and identical in sense. The Polish reading holds the same promise, "bóg jest moją przysięgą." Four syllables in Ukrainian, one meaning underneath: God is my oath.
How many people are named Yelysaveta
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Yelysaveta. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8927 among female names.